Quotes About Man

Whether we deal with primitive religions, with theistic or non-theistic religions, they are all attempts to give an answer to man's existential problem.

sane society is that which corresponds to the needs of man—

Only the stupid conquer in life; the other man foresees too many obstacles and becomes uncertain before he starts.

On je ?ovek, on želi svoju propast.

Ja sam moderan ?ovek i vrlo sam sklon samouništenju.

She also has some choice observations to offer about Fisher. "I said both to my father and Winston that though I did not doubt Lord Fisher's genius I thought him dangerous because I believed him to be mad" (quoted in Hough, Winston and Clementine, 284). On another occasion, she remarked, "What a strange man he is!" (quoted in Hough, Winston and Clementine, 306).

Root was a notorious bon vivant, whom Louis Sullivan once described as "a man of the world, of the flesh, and considerably of the devil.

Okay," Drake said, "I'll get my man on the job and have him up there. Anything else?" "That's all for now," Mason said. "Well, wait a minute! This rancher, Overbrook, looks like a big, good-natured, rugged individual, but I'd like to find out something about him.

a man who was tall in a gangling, loose-jointed way, with a static, vacuous grin seeming to betoken a continuous attempt to placate and mollify a world which somehow kept him on the defensive.

Modern man became psychological because he became isolated from protective collective ideologies. He had to justify himself from within himself.

Sartre has called man a useless passion because he is so hopelessly bungled, so deluded about his true condition. He wants to be a god with only the equipment of an animal, and so he thrives on fantasies. As Ortega so well put it in the epigraph we have used for this chapter, man uses his ideas for the defense of his existence, to frighten away reality. This is a serious game, the defense of one's existence-how take it away from people and leave them joyous?

modern man tries to replace vital awe and wonder with a "How to do it" manual.

Power for man, as the genius of Hegel saw, is the ability to support contradictions, nothing less.

For ages, when philosophers talked about the core of man they referred to it as his essence, something fixed in his nature, deep down, some special quality or substance. But nothing like it was ever found; man's peculiarity still remained a dilemma. The reason it was never found, as Erich Fromm put it in an excellent discussion, was that there was no essence, that the essence of man is really his paradoxical nature, the fact that he is half animal and half symbolic.

This is the uniquely human need, what man everywhere is really all about—each person's need to be an object of primary value, a heroic contributor to world-life—the heroic contributor to the destiny of man.

When Norman O. Brown said that Western society since Newton, no matter how scientific or secular it claims to be, is still as "religious" as any other, this is what he meant: "civilized" society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal.

They would claim that true heroism for man could only be cosmic, the service of the highest powers, the Creator, the meaning of creation.

As Kierkegaard sums it up "The loss of possibility signifies either that everything has become necessary to man or that everything has become trivial. Actually, in the extreme of depressive psychosis, we seem to see the merger of these two. Everything becomes necessary and trivial at the same time, which leads to complete despair.

Excreting is the curse that threatens madness because it shows man his abject finitude, his physicalness, the likely unreality of his hopes and dreams.

What does it mean "to be born again" for man? It means for the first time to be subjected to the terrifying paradox of the human condition, since one must be born not as a god, but as a man, or as a god-worm, or a god who shits

modern man is the victim of his own disillusionment; he has been disinherited by his own analytic strength.

The science of man has shown us that society will always be composed of passive subjects, powerful leaders, and enemies upon whom we project our guilt and self-hatred.

Neurosis is today a widespread problem because of the disappearance of convincing dramas of heroic apotheosis of man. The subject is summed up succinctly in Pinel's famous observation on how the Salpetriere mental hospital got cleared out at the time of the French Revolution. All the neurotics found a ready-made drama of self-transcending action and heroic identity. It was as simple as that.

Take a good rest, small bird, he said. Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.