I believe I've found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.
This is the paradox of historical knowledge. Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour loses its relevance. The more data we have and the better we unde...
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics chemistry or animal behaviour.
Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself the maker of his life his reward his punishment.
Darwinian Man though well-behaved At best is only a monkey shaved!
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and to beget.
We are members one of another.
The forgotten man. He is the clean quiet virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of outside his little circle. ... He works he votes generally he prays but h...
Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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.
We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.
Every man in the world is better than someolne else and not as good as someone else.
A human being isn't an orchid he must draw something from the soil he grows in.
There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.
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.
Many people believe they are attracted by God or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.
Man will ever stand in need of man.
If heaven made him earth can find some use for him.
Limited in his nature infinite in his desires man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
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