Bags Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on the earth.…

— G.K. Chesterton

Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in himself, usually…

— Lewis Mumford

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with…

— Daniel Webster

One whose soul does not wander in the expanses, one who does not seek the light of truth and goodness with all his heart,…

— Abraham Isaac Kook

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

— Rabindranath Tagore

His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an…

— William S. Burroughs

Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the…

— William Shakespeare

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

— Jacob Bronowski

“The lack of traces is the trace of his Perfect One. In the immensity of the strength of his spirit, compared to the limited…

— Julius Evola

Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson