Many people believe they are attracted by God or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.
Man as we know him is a poor creature but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
To be reborn is a constantly recurring human need.
Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws and obey them space will treat you kindly. And don't tell me man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go -...
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.
Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself: and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.
We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.
We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas.
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility.
I am a member of the rabble in good standing.
God made him and therefore let him pass for a man.
The race of man while sheep in credulity are wolves for conformity.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
That man is an aggressive creature will hardly be disputed. With the exception of certain rodents no other vertebrate habitually destroys members of its own species.
To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran And much it grieved my heart to think What Man has made of Man.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.