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Quotes about man, all human beings




Man, too, has wings, he has imagination.
Soren Kierkegaard / 






To laugh is proper to man.
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel / 
 






There is only one science to teach to children. It is that of man's duties.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education / 
 






Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Of the Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right / 
 






Man is what he eats.
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach / 






How sad to think that nature speaks and mankind doesn't listen.
Victor Hugo / 






A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics / 
 






May all men remember that they are brothers!
Voltaire - Treatise on Tolerance / 
 






Each man must invent his own path.
Jean-Paul Sartre - The Flies / 
 






We respect a man who respects himself.
Honore de Balzac - Sur Catherine de Médicis / 
 



We respect a man who respects himself.




The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education / 
 






No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
John Locke / 






Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw - Heartbreak house / 
 






All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding / 
 






Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle / 






Desire is the essence of a man.
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics / 
 






We should expect the best and the worst from mankind, as from the weather.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 
 






I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
Albrecht Dürer - Four Books of Human Proportion / 
 






Men at some time are masters of their fates;
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Julius Caesar / 
 






Man will be what he will have planned to be.
Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism / 
 






The passions have taught men reason.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 
 



The passions have taught men reason.

Image attribution  Background photo by Gleb Lukomets on Unsplash





Man is nothing but the series of his acts.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel / 






To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays / 
 






Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 
 






Every human being should be an artist. Everything can become beautiful art.
Novalis / 






Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
Voltaire / 






Man is condemned to be free.
Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism / 
 






Man is the shepherd of Being.
Martin Heidegger / 






All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle - Metaphysics / 
 



All men by nature desire knowledge.




Man being condemned to be free carries the weight of the whole world on his shoulders.
Jean-Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness / 
 










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