M Quotes
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“Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.”
Source: Access to inner worlds: the story of Brad Absetz
“Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.”
“Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state.”
“Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.”
“Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?”
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing”
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.”
Source: Animal Farm
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.”
“Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.”
“Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.”
Source: Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author
“Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
“Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.”
Source: Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...
“Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.”
Source: Sweet Thursday
“Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.”
“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
“Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that emerges only once in the whole history of life on earth takes a great deal of explaining.”
“Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?”
Source: A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism
“Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.”
“Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man - with his mouth.”
Source: Mark Twain’s Book of Animals
“Man is the only predator who hunts his own.”
Source: Unwanted
“Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.”
“Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day, he is always some man's slave for wages, and does that man's work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living.”
Source: What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings
“Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.”
Source: Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes
“Man is the pie which bakes and eats himself and the recipe is separation.”
Source: Lanark
“Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“Man is the poet who kills, Woman the angel who eats.”
Source: Queen of Angels
“Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; no fire, no heroism, no intensity of though and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave.”
Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
“Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.
Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic from Tipperary, and as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch Presbyterian from Aberdeen. Next a Turk from Constantinople; a Greek Christian from Crete; an Armenian; a Methodist from the wilds of Arkansas; a Buddhist from China; a Brahman from Benares. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping. Then I stayed away for two whole days. When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh--not a specimen left alive. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court.”
Source: Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.”
Source: What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings
“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which the other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.”
“Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.”
“Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.”
Source: The Meaning of Evolution
“Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind”
Source: The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man
“Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.”
“Man is the same today that he has always been. He is a rebel against God. He may, in some generations, hide his rebellion a little more carefully than at other times, but there is no change in his heart. The men who builded the city against God back in the days of Babylon had the same hatred as that which possessed the men who nailed the Lord Jesus Christ to the cross.”
“Man is the shepherd of Being. Man loses nothing in this "less"; rather, he gains in that he attains the truth of Being. He gains the essential poverty of the shepherd, whose dignity consists in being called by Being itself into the preservation of Being's truth. The call comes as the throw from which the thrownness of Da-sein derives. In his essential unfolding within the history of Being, man is the being whose Being as ek-sistence consists in his dwelling in the nearness of Being. Man is the neighbor of Being.”
Source: Basic Writings
“Man is the sky turned inside out.”
“Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.”
Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c
“Man is the summit, the crown of nature's development, and must comprehend everything that has preceded him, even as the fruit includes within itself all the earlier developed parts of the plant. In a word, Man must represent the whole world in miniature.”
Source: Elements of Physiophilosophy
“Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.”
Source: The Footprints of God
“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.”
Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau
“Man is the vainest of all creatures that have their being upon earth. As long as heaven vouchsafes him health and strength, he thinks that he shall come to no harm hereafter, and even when the blessed gods bring sorrow upon him, he bears it as he needs must, and makes the best of it; for God almighty gives men their daily minds day by day.”
Source: The odyssey
“Man is the victim of an environment which refuses to understand his soul.”
Source: Tales of Ordinary Madness
“Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.”
“Man is the yokel par excellence, the booby unmatchable, the king dupe of the cosmos. He is chronically and unescapably deceived, not only by the other animals and by the delusive face of nature herself--by his incomparable talent for searching out and embracing what is false, and for overlooking and denying what is true.”
Source: Prejudices: Third Series
“Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other”