homo

This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom - we cannot avoid being shaped by the past. But some freedom is better than none.

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.

We are members one of another.

Man will ever stand in need of man.

A man is a kind of inverted thermometer the bulb uppermost and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.

Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.

For seasons and seasons and seasons all our movement has been going against our self a journey into our killer's desire.

An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another but what there is is very important.'

To be reborn is a constantly recurring human need.

Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself the maker of his life his reward his punishment.

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

Most people in action are not worth very much and yet every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.

To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran And much it grieved my heart to think What Man has made of Man.

The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise or due process of law or the Australian ballot.

Man is an abyss and I turn giddy when I look down into it.

Man is only a reed the weakest thing in nature but he is a thinking reed.

If heaven made him earth can find some use for him.