Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.
Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.