Quotes about Man

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's own words can be uninteresting.

Man is the reasoning animal. Such is the claim.

Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight

As regards his health--and the rest of the things--the average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.

The Church still prizes the Moral Sense as man's noblest asset today, although the Church knows God had a distinctly poor opinion of it and did what he could in his clumsy way to keep his happy Children of the Garden from acquiring it.

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. Notebook When

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

It is the spirit that stoopeth the shoulders, I ween, and not the weight; for armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.