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Man is a thinking being, whether he will or no; all he can do is to turn his thoughts the best way.
-- Sir W. Temple...
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. -- Old Testament -- Job v, 7
Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
-- Blaise Pascal, "Pensees", 1670...
Man is by nature a political animal. -- Aristotle
Man is by nature metaphysical and proud. He has gone so far as to think that the idealistic creations of his mind, which correspond to his feelings, also represent reality.
-- Claude Bernard...
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
-- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap. xii, Apology for Raimond Sebond...
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)...
Man is demolishing nature. We are killing things that keep us alive. -- Thor Heyerdahl
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
.. For my part I would as soon be descended from [a] baboon ....

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