Contemplating Quote by John Herschel

The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“[T]he world as described is included in but is not the same as the world as it is. As a way of contemplation, it…

— Alan W. Watts

“Man, by means of the imagination, involuntarily contemplates his inner nature; he represents it as out of himself. The nature of man, of the…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a…

— George Gaylord Simpson

“Man is encased, as though in a shell, in the particular ranking of the simplest values and value-qualities which represent the objective side of…

— Max Scheler

Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion,…

— Oscar Wilde

Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies…

— Ruth Nanda Anshen

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

Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he…

— Annie Besant

Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived,…

— Richard Whately

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel