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1. "I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence."

Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"

Quotations about: Life and Death

2. "One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."

Walter Bagehot, "Physics and Politics"

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

3. "Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit."

Aldous Huxley, "Eyeless in Gaza"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol -:- Various

4. "Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs."

Aldous Huxley, "Themes and Variations"

5. "The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things [...] have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower."

Edith Hamilton, "The Greek Way"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

6. "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes."

Victor Frankl

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

7. "It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."

Bertrand Russell

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

8. "Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is."

Albert Camus

9. "The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us."

Robert Louis Stevenson

Quotations about: Love

10. "We are not human beings trying to be spiritual. We are spiritual beings trying to be human."

Jacquelyn Small

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

11. "So many men so many questions."

Terence

Quotations about: Question and Problem

12. "I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien to me."

Terence

13. "Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

Abraham Lincoln, "Lincoln's Own Stories"

14. "Altruism is the mark of a superior being."

Egyptian proverb, (from ancient temple)

Quotations about: Egoism

15. "A man is not where he lives, but where he loves."

Latin proverb

Quotations about: Love

16. "I would fight the world for you, but I'm damned if I can figure out how to save you from yourself."

Lois McMaster Bujold

17. "Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds."

Saint Teresa of Avila (Teresa de Jesús)

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

18. "Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."

Edmund Burke

Quotations about: God and Religion

19. "Man is a messenger who forgot the message."

Abraham Joshua Heschel

20. "We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups."

Deborah Tannen

Quotations about: Egoism

Why not a gift:

Fantasy -:- Movies -:- Dolls -:- Bears

21. "Life + Desire = Man; Life - Desire = God"

Sathya Sai Baba

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires -:- God and Religion

22. "A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you."

Ramsey Clark

Quotations about: Law and Crime

23. "If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people."

Karel Čapek

Quotations about: Nature and Animals -:- Oration and Silence

24. "You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."

Malcolm Forbes

Quotations about: Egoism

25. "Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness."

Julia Cameron

Quotations about: Art and Culture

26. "Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."

Ann Landers

Quotations about: Science and Technology

27. "Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us."

Horace Mann

Quotations about: Various

28. "Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape."

Erich Fromm, "Man for Himself"

29. "I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking."

Christopher Isherwood

30. "My work is writing, but my real work is being."

William Saroyan

Quotations about: Art and Culture

31. "Man is a social animal."

Baruch Spinoza

32. "Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires."

Alexander Graham Bell

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires -:- Nature and Animals

33. "Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away [...] A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him."

Plato, "Phaedo"

Quotations about: Life and Death

34. "Man - who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!"

Doris Lessing

Quotations about: Destiny and Fate

35. "A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men."

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

36. "On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!"

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

37. "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

Edmund Burke

Quotations about: Education

38. "Sometimes I know that there is intelligent life on other planets because they haven't tried to contact us."

Anon.

39. "Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."

Herbert Hoover

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

40. "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

41. "Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal."

St. Jerome

Quotations about: Time and Passing

42. "The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs."

Alphonse de Lamartine

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

43. "Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Quotations about: Justice -:- Sin and Conscience

44. "Mankind is made great or little by its own will."

Friedrich von Schiller

Quotations about: Various

45. "What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God."

Eleanor Powell

Quotations about: God and Religion

46. "There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, 'What happened?'."

Ann Landers

47. "The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

48. "The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain."

Colin Wilson

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

49. "To err is human, to blame it on someone else is more human."

Anon.

50. "We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create."

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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