Quotes 4641 till 4660 of 10005.
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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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.
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness (1964) -
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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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.
Source: Pensees (1669) -
Man knows so much and does so little.
― Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
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Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
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Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle.
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
Source: Pensees (1669) -
Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
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Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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