Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
How different a creature is man in society and man in solitude!
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.
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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 the creature of circumstances.
Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.
Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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