Men Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact…

— Francis Bacon

Man, is an indivisible entity, an integrated unit of mind and body.

— Mike Mentzer

Man is the measure of all things, of things that are that they are, and of things that are not that they are not.

— Protagoras

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his…

— Francis Bacon

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest…

— Henry David Thoreau

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

— Rabindranath Tagore

“However completely people might fulfil themselves in other spheres, if they don’t possess this understanding between their hands and material objects, they can never…

— Madeleine Bourdouxhe

Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of…

— William Hazlitt

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin