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Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.
– Tom Clancy
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
– Bertrand Russell
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
– Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"
Man is a culture, nothing but a culture! Question your culture! Just like monkeys picking lice from their skin, get rid of the stupidities in your culture!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.
– Unknown
Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
– Rebecca West
Man is a machine of remembrance; all we do is to remember things because life flies fast like a swallow; reality immediately disappears!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
– William Hazlitt
Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.
– H. L. Mencken
Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
– Orson Welles
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
Man is a social animal. Without society he is nothing but animal. Yet many consider themselves 'self made'.
– B. J. Gupta
Man is a thief, an impudent thief! He steals honey from bees, eggs from chickens, milk from cows and life from the God!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Man is a tireless traveller wandering in the dark valleys of his past!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat (eyes), hears through a bone (ears) and speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue).
– Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
– Golo Mann
Man is an actor who plays various parts: First comes a boy, then out a lover starts; His garb is changed for, lo! a beggar?s rags; Then he?s a merchant with full money-bags; Anon, an aged sire, wrinkled and lean; At last Death drops the curtain on the scene.*
– Bhartrihari
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.
– Alexander Graham Bell
Man is an appearance; God is a reality.
– Kedar Joshi
Man is an intellectual animal, therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two without the possibility of its ever being otherwise. A mere physical being or a pure spirit can alone be satisfied with itself.
– Hazlitt
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
– Paul Tillich
Man is born dead and he remains dead till he attains wisdom! Wisdom is the only resurrection man can obtain!
– Mehmet Murat ildan

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