Areas Quote by Franz Boas

In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and…

— Franz Boas

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible…

— C. Wright Mills

Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from…

— Vilfredo Pareto

“Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity as a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful.…

— Anonymous

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

— Georg Brandes

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

— William James

Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of…

— Annie Besant

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men of all social stations live together: they are equal in their desires, yet vary in their methods; they are equal in their passions,…

— Xunzi

Society asks of most men more than sheer intellect ability-it demands also moral hardiness, self-discipline, a competitive spirit and other qualities that in more…

— Julius Adams Stratton