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Quotes about man, all human beings




Do not have too artificial an idea of man but judge him naturally. Don't consider him too good or too bad.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 






Man is neither good nor bad, he is born with instincts and aptitudes.
Honore de Balzac - La Comédie humaine / 






The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable. A tree does not know itself to be miserable.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 






Man is born for pleasure; he feels it; no other proof of it is needed.
Blaise Pascal - Discourse on the Passion of Love / 






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






War is an evil which dishonours mankind.
François Fénelon / 






The will of man is his happiness.
Friedrich Schiller - Wallenstein / 






Men are as the time is.
William Shakespeare - King Lear






Becoming human is an art.
Novalis / 






All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living and the dead of all nations have contributed.
Martin Luther King Jr.






Nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these biases to draw too much, so as to incapacitate them for other occupations and entertainments.
David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding






It is a great aim of prudence never to be embarrassed. It is the sign of a real man, of a noble heart, for magnanimity is not easily put out.
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom / 






To me men are for what they are, They wear no masks with me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / 






Man is a sociable, no less than a reasonable being.
David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding / 






Man was born to live with his fellow human beings.
Denis Diderot






Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte






Man is not entirely to blame; it was not he who started history; nor is he entirely innocent, since he continues it.
Albert Camus - L'Été / 






It is by playing the man, or the woman well that one helps humanity to exist. And it is necessary: it needs you just as you need it!
André Comte-Sponville - Présentations de la philosophie / 






It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
Henry David Thoreau






It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau






Yet it is better to accept public morals and human vices calmly without bursting into either laughter or tears.
Seneca - On Tranquility of the Mind / 






Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
Martin Heidegger






As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
Jean-Paul Sartre / 






Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde / 






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