Quotes About Being

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is.

Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.

God... is a personal Being, a holy and exalted man.

I may not be a human, but I am a man.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being, and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.

Calvin: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not sure man needs the help.

Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread.

So even the word "save" is being used in a sense that is grotesquely misleading—"destroy one version, save another" would be more accurate.

Consciousness, he wrote, is non-spatiotemporal in nature. But it becomes involved with the spatiotemporal world when conscious beings react to their own cognitions and make efforts to communicate with other conscious beings—something that they can only do by involving their spatiotemporal bodies.

This was the moment when a human would have apologized for having ruined the dinner party, but one of the liberties that went along with being a raven was never being sorry for anything.