Ancestor Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.

— Daniel D. Palmer

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

Man's nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the satanic, and the divine.…

— Al-Ghazali

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and…

— Michel de Montaigne

Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their…

— Hermann Hesse

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 is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but…

— Charles Darwin

Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit

— Abdu'l-Bahá

Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

— John Updike

The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon…

— Adam Sedgwick