Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Man as a pure animal does not exist.
It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
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.
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
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.
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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