Man Is Quotes
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To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.
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Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.
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A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.
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Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
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Man is more ape than many of the apes.
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Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.
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Man is not made for the state; the state is made for man. To deprive man of freedom is to relegate him to the status of a thing, rather than elevate him to the status of a person. Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.
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Man is entitled by birthright to a share of the earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence.
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Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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Man is, above all, he who creates.
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Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
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Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.
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Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.
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Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!
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Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.
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Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.
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Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.
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Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.
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Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.
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Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
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Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get below his animal nature, habits, customs, affections, daily life, and sometimes go away down into the heart of the man, before you know what is really in him. But when you get into the last core of these concentric rings of personality you find a sense of the infinite-a consciousness of immortality linked to something higher and better.
