Quotes with one-man

Quotes 4581 till 4600 of 10005.

• Man is an imagining being.

  Gaston Bachelard
  French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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• Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.

  Aldous Huxley
  English writer (1894 - 1963)
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• Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

  Ezra Pound
  American poet (1885 - 1972)
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• Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

  George Santayana
  Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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• Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.

  Baltasar Gracian
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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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.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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• Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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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.

  Lord George Byron
  English poet (1788 - 1824)
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• Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

  Boris Pasternak
  Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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• Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

  Hans J. Morgenthau
   
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• Man is by nature a political animal.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

  Arthur Keith
  Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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• Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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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.

  Cat Stevens
  British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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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.

  Thomas Hobbes
  British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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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.

  Eric Hoffer
  American writer (1902 - 1983)
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• Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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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.

  James Thurber
  American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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• Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

  Voltaire
  French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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• Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

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

• over-complicated
• distinguished
• indefatigable
• proselytizing
• responsible
• preparation

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