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.
Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaningless-ness.
The cultivated man wise to know and bold to perform is the end to which nature works.
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 -...
An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another but what there is is very important.'
One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.
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.
The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free...
Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
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.
Every man is more than just himself he also represents the unique the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect only once in this way and ne...
Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.
Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and to beget.
Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
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.
God made him and therefore let him pass for a man.
He was a man take him for all in all I shall not look upon his like again.
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the s...
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