SOME
THOUHTS ON MAN
There
are so many thoughts about man that no single writer can collect them and put
them into any encyclopedia of any length and breadth.
When men were few in the
beginning of this world, thoughts about them were also few. Today, human population
runs into billions and the number of thoughts related to men are uncountable.
To say the least, each
man is a huge volume of thoughts. In every book, magazine, journal, newspaper, readers
find a number of old and new thoughts. To
tell their latest tally is impossible.
Given
below is less than even the tiniest number of thoughts on man.
1.Half dust, half deity, alike unfit
to sink or soar.
2. Limited in his nature, infinite in
his desires.
3. A reasoning rather than a
reasonable animal.
4. A divinity in disguise, a god
playing the fool.
5.When perfected by society, the best
of all animals.
6. Belongs to one of these three classes
– the retrograde, the stationary, and the progressive.
7. A wealth grabber, a pleasure
seeker; a power wielder; a thinker; a creative lover.
8. The representative product of the
universe.
9. When he becomes a brute, he is the
most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
10. If virtuous, man is free from
anxieties; if wise, free from perplexities; if bold, free from fear.
11. Man is society’s servant.
12. He has depths that go to the
lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven. 13.By losing faith and
honour, man dies.
14. Man is an act and a breath of
God.
15. The test of every religious,
political, or educational system is the man which it forms. It is not what he
has, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
To conclude: the following words of the English poet-playwright
William Shakespeare(1564-1616):
What
a piece of work is man! How noble in reason!
How infinite in
faculties! In form and moving, how
express and admirable! In
action, how like an angel!
In apprehension, how like
a god!
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G.R.Kanwal
19 April 2025
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