Quotes 2301 till 2320 of 4583.
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Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
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Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.
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Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
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Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
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Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
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Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
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Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
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Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.
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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate comprehensivity. Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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