Descending Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and…

— Annie Besant

Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Man is a being in search of meaning.

— Plato

Man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts, a myriad…

— Jack London

Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift…

— Mary Hunter Austin

This life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant.

— Venerable Bede

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending…

— Robert Frost

Man is a thinking being; what and how we think largely determines what we are and what we will become.

— Sterling W Sill

Man is what he believes.

— Anton Chekhov

Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a peculiar mode…

— Vaclav Havel