“Work is not a constraint. Man's activity provides his true fulfilment. True fulfilment however, can only be achieved if one man is not another man's slave.”

“Man is fulfilled only when he ceases to be man.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

“Now, he no longer promises others the fulfillment of his duties, but promises himself the fulfillment of man.”

Martin Buber (1878–1965) German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian

“There is a true, religious devotion in the mind and feelings of that man whose soul springs forth in beauty and power, whose physical form is upright and symmetrical, and who, in fulfilling the laws of health, fulfils the laws of Deity. There is a true religion in the intellectual man, who, penetrating deeply into the earth, and air, and sky, for scientific investigation, culls all the treasures of thought and beauty, and stores them up in his memory as sacred and divine.”

Cora L. V. Scott (1840–1923) American spiritualist, writer

“A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice

“No one can tell another man is true. Truth is all around us…Truth is where ever man has glimpsed divinity.”

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer

“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison… the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor.”

Henry David Thoreau book Civil Disobedience

“A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!”

Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist

“The minister is to be a live man, a real man, a true man, a simple man, great in his love, great in his life, great in his work, great in his simplicity, great in his gentleness.”

John Hall (1829–1898) Presbyterian pastor from Northern Ireland in New York, died 1898

“No man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.”

John Vanbrugh The Relapse