110 quotes found
“The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels.”
“There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo Sapiens.”
“We fancy men are individuals so are pumpkins but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.”
“We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.”
“Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist.”
“Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself: and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.”
“The race of man while sheep in credulity are wolves for conformity.”
“Men are cruel but man is kind.”
“In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.”
“I believe I've found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.”
“A human being isn't an orchid he must draw something from the soil he grows in.”
“I am mortal born to love and to suffer.”
“I am a man nothing human is alien to me.”
“Few men are of one plain decided colour most are mixed shaded and blended and vary as much from different situations as changeable silks do from different lights.”
“I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.”
“Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.”
“Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors and a misfit from the start.”
“Man as we know him is a poor creature but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.”
“Many people believe they are attracted by God or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.”
“The cultivated man wise to know and bold to perform is the end to which nature works.”
