110 quotes found
“He was a man take him for all in all I shall not look upon his like again.”
“I am a member of the rabble in good standing.”
“The strongest human instinct is to impart information the second strongest is to resist it.”
“God made him and therefore let him pass for a man.”
“Darwinian Man though well-behaved At best is only a monkey shaved!”
“Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself the maker of his life his reward his punishment.”
“Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed the only animal that is never satisfied.”
“Most people in action are not worth very much and yet every human being is an unprecedented miracle.”
“People are too durable that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves they last too long.”
“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul a spirit capable of compassio...”
“A man is a kind of inverted thermometer the bulb uppermost and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.”
“To be reborn is a constantly recurring human need.”
“Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”
“The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and to beget.”
“A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics chemistry or animal behaviour.”
“Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.”
“The forgotten man. He is the clean quiet virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of outside his little circle. ... He works he votes generally he prays bu...”
“Limited in his nature infinite in his desires man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.”
“Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.”
“Men must endure their going hence even as their coming hither ripeness is all.”
