Quotes with man-being

Quotes 3181 till 3200 of 6261.

• Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

  ― John Donne
  English poet (1572 - 1631)
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• Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

  ― Benjamin Disraeli
  English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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• Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

  ― Betty Friedan
  American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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• Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

  ― Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

  ― André Malraux
  French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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• Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

  ― Blaise Pascal
  French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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• Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.

  ― Benjamin Disraeli
  English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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• Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

  ― Alfred A. Montapert
  American writer
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• Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish

  ― Jean de la Fontaine
  French writer (1621 - 1695)
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• Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

  ― Joseph De Maistre
  French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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• Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

  ― David Sarnoff
  American Entrepreneur (1891 - 1971)
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• Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

  ― John F. Kennedy
  American politician (1917 - 1963)
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• Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

  ― Bill Vaughan
  American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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• Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

  ― Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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• Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.

  ― Wernher von Braun
  German-American rocket scientist and scientist (1912 - 1977)
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• Man is the inventor of stupidity.

  ― Remy de Gourmont
  French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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• Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

  ― Erich Fromm
  German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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• Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid... There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

  ― George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

  ― Samuel Butler
  English poet (1835 - 1902)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• impossibilities
• interplanetary
• legislature
• spacecraft
• thoroughly
• dependent

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