Man (n.) is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Man (n.) is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Man (n.) has two faces: he can't love without self-love.
Man (n.) for Hegel is a creature who, to affirm his existence and his difference, denies.
Man (n.) becomes more fully a man by what he withholds than by what he utters.
Man (n.) has more in him to admire than to despise, as a time of pestilence teaches.
Man (n.) after Hegel is no completed creature but an experiment, one that he can partly author himself.
Man (n.) is capable of great deeds but not of great emotion: he cannot suffer for long, or be happy for long.
Man (n.) is an end in himself, and the only one; if he is to be anything, it must be within this life.
Man (n.) has to decline to be a god if he wants to be a man — the only fresh rule of living today: learning how to live and how to die.
Man (n.) matters more than hero or saint — 'I feel closer to the defeated than to saints. Heroism and holiness hardly attract me, I think. My interest is in being a man.'