Apparently either
coined or
popularized by
Ludwig Feuerbach1, this
German saying is like the
English,
"You are what you eat", but arguably more
poetic. The
ist "is" and
ißt "eats" are pronounced exactly the same, so
spoken aloud, the phrase can be heard as:
- Man is what he eats.
- Man is what he is.
- Man eats what he eats.
- Man eats what he is.
1: Source is Cletus the Foetus, spoken in the catbox.