What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The imagination is man's power over nature.
Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
There is a great deal of human nature in man.
What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.
One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.
From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.