Nature of man Quote by Margaret S. Archer

“A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form,…

— Ayn Rand

“Furthermore, we exist in a psychologically fragmented state, a state of continuous inner conflicts among the parts of ourselves. We have lost the principle…

— Kabir Helminski

“Achievement of any kind is the crown of effort,the diadem of thought.By the aid of self-control, resolution, purity, righteousness, and well-directed thought a man…

— James Allen

“The fundamental construct of self and other is becoming untenable.”

— James Hamblin

“This is the age of the individual and there is no reason to believe that this focus of mankind is likely to change in…

— Shai Tubali

“Every man-made thing, be it a chair, a text, or a school, is thought made substance. It is the expression of someone's, or some…

— Peter Korn

“This feeling that--contrary to the consciously philosophic and historical conception which proclaims unceasing and peaceful progress--one is experiencing a last brief, irretrievable intellectual prime…

— Gyorgy Lukács

“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

“We create our sense of self by merging our fragmented thoughts in a coherent conception of our being.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“I realize that a certain school of thought says that who we are is something we construct for ourselves. We build ourselves out of…

— Deirdre Madden

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“It is my opinion that humans are largely what they make of themselves; in other words, "human nature" is not so much an empirical…

— Linda Marie Fedigan