Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. Disraeli.
Man is nothing but contradiction; the less he knows it the more dupe he is. Amiel.
Man is of the earth, but his thoughts are with the stars. A pigmy standing on the outward crest of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest. Carlyle.
Man is often a wolf to man, a serpent to God, 40 and a scorpion to himself. Spurgeon.
Man is one, and he hath one great heart. Bailey.
Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him. George Herbert.
Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. Disraeli.
Man is only what he becomes, but he becomes only what he is. Amiel.
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a 45 thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start. Emerson.
Man is placed in this world as a spectator; when he is tired with wondering at all the novelties about him, and not till then, does he desire to be made acquainted with the causes that create those wonders. Goldsmith.