Being yourself Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at…

— Henry David Thoreau

A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.

— Albert Schweitzer

The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day.

— Evan Esar

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

— William James

. . . man is just what he thinks himself to be . . . He will attract to himself what the thinks most…

— Ernest Holmes

Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp... If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its…

— Loren Eiseley

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.

— Konrad Lorenz

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

— Albert Schweitzer

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making…

— Erich Fromm

Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon