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Quotes about man, all human beings




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 / 






Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman / 






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 / 






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



The passions have taught men reason.

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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.




Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.
David Hume / 






The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.
Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan / 










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