Quotes 2041 till 2060 of 3899.
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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
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Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
The Virtue of Selfishness (1964) -
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.
Pensees (1669) -
Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Philosophy and Politics -
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
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Man shapes himself through decision that shape his environment.
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Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
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Man should beware of letting his religion spoil his morality.
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone II, 185 -
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
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Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
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Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it.
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Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
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