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“Man was created as a being whose very existence is derived from and dependent upon a Creator whom he must acknowledge as such and…

— Jay E. Adams

“then it occurred to him that a worthy man dedicates himself not to one particular thing which attracts him, but to all tasks; and…

— James A. Michener

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

— Johannes Tauler

“The task of modern man is not to find his inner self, but to create himself.”

— Rod Judkins

“Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“No one can understand himself, for to do that he would have to get outside himself; the subject of the knowing and willing activity…

— Otto Weininger

“[M]an … makes Nature merely the servant of his will and needs, and … degrades it to a mere machine, a product of the…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

“Man is endowed with reason and the power to create, so that he may increase that which has been given him, but until now…

— Anton Chekhov

“This uniqueness and singleness which distinguishes each individual and gives a meaning to his existence has a bearing on creative work as much as…

— Viktor Frankl

“... to his efforts to perpetuate man: but he has preserved nothing but sensations; and, although his invention was incomplete, he at least foreshadowed…

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

“In the heroic effort of the individual to attain universality, in the attempt to transcend the curse of individuation and to become the one…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions…

— James Allen