Man
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3.Man as composite of body and spirit
3a.Man as microcosm and link between material and spiritual
Paul, The First Epistle of Paul to the CorinthiansVol. 45
- p. 512First man Adam earthy, second man heavenly; men bear the image of the earthy and will bear the heavenly.read · scan
Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of EpictetusVol. 2
- p. 120Man combines a body shared with animals and reason shared with gods; few rise to the divine kinship.read · scan
Saint Augustine, The Confessions of St. AugustineVol. 7
- p. 114He recognizes a perfect man in Christ, with body, rational soul and mind.read · scan
Michel de Montaigne, Of the Institution and Education of ChildrenVol. 32
- p. 54–55We must educate the whole man, not separate mind and body, like a matched team of horses.read · scan
Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and MoralVol. 3
- p. 51–52Kings must remember they are both man and God's lieutenant.read · scan
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio MediciVol. 3
- p. 265–266Man is a compendium of nature's wonders; the microcosm contains all Africa and her prodigies.read · scan
- p. 284–285Man is an amphibium linking corporeal and spiritual essence, a true microcosm living the lives of mass, plants, animals, men and spirits.read · scan
- p. 287The creation of man is the great mystery; God made him as a craftsman, forming a body and a soul like himself.read · scan
- p. 318–319Man is a microcosm, one yet a world of contrarieties, with enemies within and without.read · scan
- p. 325Every man is a microcosm carrying the whole world about him.read · scan
- p. 326Man is a microcosm, image of God, with a divine part before the elements; mind not bounded by flesh.read · scan
William Penn, Some Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 323Man is the epitome of the world; reading ourselves well teaches us; we are strangers to our own genius.read · scan
Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of MoralsVol. 32
- p. 360–362Man belongs both to the sensible world and the intelligible world, as receptive of sensation and as pure activity.read · scan
- p. 367Man must conceive himself in a twofold way, as sensible and intelligent.read · scan
William Blake, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 587–588Man was made for joy and woe, woven together as a clothing for the divine soul.read · scan
Friedrich von Schiller, Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of ManVol. 32
- p. 250–251Man is neither exclusively matter nor spirit; beauty consummates his humanity.read · scan
- p. 276Man unites highest and lowest; dignity requires their separation, happiness their reconciliation; humanity begins with freedom, not reason.read · scan
Victor Hugo, Preface to CromwellVol. 39
- p. 342–343Man is twofold, animal and intellect, body and soul, linking material and incorporeal chains of beings.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, NatureVol. 5
- p. 230Man carries the world in his head, and the history of nature is charactered in his brain, making him discoverer of her secrets.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, WorshipVol. 5
- p. 294Man is made of the same atoms as the world and joyfully joins the sublime order with knowledge.read · scan
Henry David Thoreau, WalkingVol. 28
- p. 395Man is seen as inhabitant and part of Nature, not merely of society.read · scan
Walt Whitman, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1402–1403Whitman celebrates the complete human form, body as worthy as brain, male and female equally, the modern man.read · scan
3b.The conflict of flesh and spirit, sense and reason
See also: Opposition 3b · Change 2a · Beauty 9a · Liberty 1d
Paul, The First Epistle of Paul to the CorinthiansVol. 45
- p. 493–494Contrasts the natural man, who cannot grasp spiritual things, with the spiritual man; only the human spirit knows a man's own, as God's Spirit knows God's.read · scan
Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus AureliusVol. 2
- p. 250Man's constitution: first the social principle, second not yielding to body, third freedom from error; reason is superior to senses and appetites.read · scan
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of ChristVol. 7
- p. 236Bodily necessities of eating and sleeping hinder the soul's spiritual life.read · scan
Martin Luther, Concerning Christian LibertyVol. 36
- p. 345–346Man is composed of a spiritual inner and fleshly outer nature, opposed in the same person, flesh lusting against spirit.read · scan
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniVol. 31
- p. 198Cellini declares he is no statue but a man of flesh and spirit, ready to prove it.read · scan
John Donne, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 312–313A woman does not know a naked thinking heart; man's mind and body offered separately.read · scan
John Webster, The Duchess of MalfiVol. 47
- p. 772–773Bosola's meditation on the body's foulness: man is horrified at deformity in beasts yet carries disease and rot, hiding it in rich tissue.read · scan
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio MediciVol. 3
- p. 305We are monsters, compositions of man and beast; we know good but pursue evil; sense should sit at the feet of reason.read · scan
Molière, Tartuffe, or The HypocriteVol. 26
- p. 251–253He pleads human frailty: though pious, he is a man of flesh and no angel.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 92–93Proud man must be humbled to submit to externals; the people must be raised to the internal.read · scan
- p. 93We are as much automatic as intellectual.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, LettersVol. 48
- p. 340–341Every man contains senses, appetite and reason in tensionread · scan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Profession of Faith of a Savoyard VicarVol. 34
- p. 257Man is a double being, pulled between reason and passion, so not one simple substance.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Tragedy of Faust, Part IVol. 19
- p. 48–49The human spirit's flight is limited by mortal body.read · scan
- p. 143–145Faust laments that nothing perfect is given to man; exalted joy is joined to a degrading companion.read · scan
Friedrich von Schiller, Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of ManVol. 32
- p. 213–214Distinguishes real physical man from problematical moral man.read · scan
- p. 215–216Man has an ideal self and empirical self; reason demands unity, nature variety.read · scan
- p. 217–218Man is divided against himself as savage, ruled by feelings, or barbarian, whose principles destroy feeling; the cultivated man befriends nature.read · scan
- p. 226Man should not neglect the totality of his nature for any end; only balanced equilibrium of forces produces accomplished men.read · scan
- p. 239–240Man's perfection is the permanent unity of Ego remaining the same amid the waves of change.read · scan
- p. 242Human nature is split between sensuous and rational impulses, the formal instinct arising from man's absolute rational existence.read · scan
- p. 243–244Change and immutability together exhaust the notion of humanity.read · scan
- p. 244Man's perfection unites receptivity to the world with rational self-spontaneity.read · scan
- p. 245Man fails his destination if he lets either sense or form dominate, and loses personality, becoming nothing.read · scan
- p. 246Character must limit temperament; relaxation of thought and will would degrade humanity.read · scan
- p. 247The idea of humanity requires reconciling feeling and thought; complete humanity is an infinite ideal approached but never reached.read · scan
- p. 249The conception of humanity is completed only by uniting reality with form and passivity with freedom; reason demands it.read · scan
- p. 251Play completes man's twofold nature, developing sensuous and rational sides together.read · scan
- p. 252Man is fully man only when he plays; play completes human nature beyond duty and destiny.read · scan
- p. 256Man's perfection is harmony of sensuous and spiritual forces; real man lacks it through tension or relaxation.read · scan
- p. 257–258Man governed by feeling or by concepts is in a state of one-sided constraint.read · scan
- p. 263–264The human type is realised only when both impulses exist; man moves from individual to person, finite toward infinite.read · scan
- p. 267The aesthetic disposition comprises the whole of humanity, removing limits from human nature.read · scan
Lord Byron, ManfredVol. 18
- p. 415Man is half dust, half deity, torn between low wants and lofty will, and mortality wins.read · scan
Victor Hugo, Preface to CromwellVol. 39
- p. 349–350The sublime represents the soul purified by Christian morality; the grotesque is the human beast with passions, vices and infirmities.read · scan
- p. 354–355Christianity teaches man is twofold, perishable and immortal, carnal and ethereal; this struggle creates the drama.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, MannersVol. 5
- p. 201A good lord must first be a good animal; plenteous nature is the rightful master.read · scan
3c.The inner man as distinct from body and outward show
Plato, The Apology of SocratesVol. 2
- p. 22He says he is a creature of flesh and blood like others, yet must not debase himself.read · scan
Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old AgeVol. 9
- p. 54A man's worth lies in his real self and intellect, not in chest and biceps.read · scan
Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus AureliusVol. 2
- p. 200Man is a little flesh, breath and the ruling part; the body is blood, bones and nerves.read · scan
- p. 284–285What pulls the strings within, the power of persuasion and life, is the man; the surrounding vessel and instruments are not.read · scan
- p. 287–288Universal nature as the source of justice and virtue; man's judgment about externals disturbs him, not the things themselves.read · scan
- p. 294–295Man is composed of little body, breath and intelligence; only intelligence is properly his own.read · scan
- p. 301The ruling faculty is what matters in man; all else is ashes; contempt of death befits one who lives by right reason.read · scan
Sir Walter Raleigh, Preface to the History of the WorldVol. 39
- p. 67–68Inner form of mind, not outward shape, distinguishes men; outward works let us guess at hidden dispositions.read · scan
Isaac Watts, True GreatnessVol. 40
- p. 398A man's worth is measured by his soul and mind, not physical size.read · scan
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceVol. 24
- p. 213–214The new scheme reduces king and woman to mere man and animal, stripping the dignity moral imagination gave.read · scan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 703–704The body as a house not built with hands that does him wrong; youth and age.read · scan
William Ellery Channing, On the Elevation of the Laboring ClassesVol. 28
- p. 343–344A man is worth infinitely more than costumes and show; caste from outward prosperity insults humanity.read · scan
- p. 351–352Asks whether human nature must always be sacrificed to outward decoration, the inward man to the outward.read · scan
George Long, The Philosophy of AntoninusVol. 2
- p. 331The real man is the hidden inner life; body and other parts are vesture and instruments he uses in his present existence.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The PoetVol. 5
- p. 176Poets as liberating gods; hints of the immortality of our essence and the mind's freedom from routine, via the 'tree of man' image.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, WorshipVol. 5
- p. 287–288Men's natures speak truth despite artful understanding; the soul betrays itself in face and manner; a hidden wise superior within each person.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, English TraitsVol. 5
- p. 350–351In every efficient man there is first a fine animal.read · scan
Hans Christian Andersen, TalesVol. 17
- p. 323The Shadow says it became a man by learning its inward nature; needs clothes, the human varnish, and has seen the worst in people.read · scan
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the BeagleVol. 29
- p. 506In such solitudes one feels there is more in man than the breath of his body.read · scan
Robert Louis Stevenson, Truth of IntercourseVol. 28
- p. 280He who forfeits his birthright of expression and cultivates artifice scarcely deserves the name of man; the body is a house of many windows.read · scan
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