He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards the same branch would be found among some of his descendants.
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.