Born Quote by Loren Eiseley

Man is a piece of the universe made alive

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Man is but a foundling in the cosmos, abandoned by the forces that created him

— Carl Becker

Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.

— Daniel D. Palmer

Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world…

— William Golding

“Man is out of nature and hopelessly in it; he is dual, up in the stars and yet housed in a heart-pumping, breath-gasping body…

— Ernest Becker

Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what…

— Jacob Bronowski

Man's being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is…

— Charles Darwin

He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or…

— Anonymous