Adapted Quote by Robert Stawell Ball

But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has a rather…

— Jacob Bronowski

An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is…

— Ayn Rand

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

— Louis Zamperini

Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic…

— Eric Hoffer

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with…

— Daniel Webster

Man is the creature of circumstances.

— Robert Owen

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

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.”

— Henry David Thoreau

A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, who can feel evicted from paradise, the only animal for whom…

— Erich Fromm