Man Quotes

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.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

The test of a man's or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

The business man - a man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.