Quotes with gentle-man

Quotes 2301 till 2320 of 4582.

• Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.

  Aldous Huxley
  English writer (1894 - 1963)
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• Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this - one dog does not change a bone with another.

  Adam Smith
  Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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• Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

  William S. Burroughs
  American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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• Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

  Albert Camus
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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• Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

  Augusto Roa Bastos
  Paraguayan novelist and writer (1917 - 2005)
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• Man is an imagining being.

  Gaston Bachelard
  French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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• Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.

  Aldous Huxley
  English writer (1894 - 1963)
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• Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

  Ezra Pound
  American poet (1885 - 1972)
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• Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

  George Santayana
  Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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• Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.

  Baltasar Gracian
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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• Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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• Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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• Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

  Lord George Byron
  English poet (1788 - 1824)
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• Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

  Boris Pasternak
  Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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• Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

  Hans J. Morgenthau
   
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• Man is by nature a political animal.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

  Arthur Keith
  Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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• Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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• Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.

  Cat Stevens
  British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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• Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

  Thomas Hobbes
  British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• over-complicated
• consciousness
• distinguished
• indefatigable
• perseverance
• main-spring

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