Man Quotes

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

The highest wisdom has but one science - the science of the whole - the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes his life activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified.

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.

Nature is man's inorganic body - that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature - i.e., nature is his body - and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it is he is not to die. To say that man's physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.