“Man is the animal that draws lines which he himself then stumbles over.”

“Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.”

“Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.”

“A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.”

“Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.”

“Man is a make-believe animal — he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.”

“He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself, for every man hath need to be forgiven.”

“…but who can know the heart of a man? Not even he himself, I suspect. A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.”

“Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion — several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight.”

“The pretended superiority of man over woman, and the despotic authority which he arrogates to himself, have the same origin as the domination of the nobility.”