Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
Man as a pure animal does not exist.
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.