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Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.
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Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.
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Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.
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Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
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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 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)
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