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| Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones | | Bertrand Russell | |
| Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is impiety | | Bertrand Russell | |
| Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games | | Scott Adams | |
| Man is a mere phantom as he goes to and fro: He bustles about, but only in vain; he heaps up wealth, not knowing who will get it | | Bible | |
| Man is a tool-using Animal.... Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. | | Thomas Carlyle | |
| Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him. | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |
| Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by dozens | | Michel de Montaigne | |
| Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. | | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. | | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have | | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft, and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor | | Werner von Braun | |
| Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to. | | Mark Twain | |
| Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. | | Samuel Butler | |
| Man is the only creature in the animal kingdom that sits in judgment on the work of the Creator and finds it bad - including himself and Nature | | Elbert Hubbard | |
| Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. | | Eric Hoffer | |
| Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. | | John Steinbeck | |
| Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
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