Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only…

What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically…

— Carl Sagan

“Sometimes I wonder if there's things we'll never explain. You know, like, you know, what if we did answer all the questions? You know,…

— Michael J Caboose

“{ On to contributions to evolutionary biology of 18th century French scientist, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon } He was not an evolutionary biologist,…

— Ernst Mayr

The man is distinguished from the youth by the fact that he takes the world as it is, instead of everywhere fancying it amiss…

— Max Stirner

Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! You imagine great things, and depict to yourself a whole world of gods…

— Max Stirner

What can I do to become more like my Ideal Image?

— Bucky Sinister

Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.

— Herbert Spencer

The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

— James A. Baldwin

Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in…

— Swami Vivekananda

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

— Anne Fortier

Now is the time to lead your ideal life.

— Phil Cousineau

I think in an ideal world, one would be able to do everything, however, we don't live in an ideal world.

— Michael Graziadei

All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.

— Thomas Carlyle

I've always worked closely with the designers and whoever's making the costumes. Comfort is the last thing you want on your mind when you're…

— Kristi Yamaguchi

my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

— Clare Boothe Luce