Quotes with man-being

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• Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

  ― Charles Lamb
  English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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• Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

  ― Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

  ― G. C. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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• Man is a long time coming.
  Man will yet win.
  Brother may yet line up with brother:
  This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.
  There are men who can't be bought.

  Source: The People Will Live On (1936)

  ― Carl Sandburg
  American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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• Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

  ― William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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• Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

  ― G. C. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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• Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

  Source: The Zookeepers Wife (2008)

  ― Abraham Joshua Heschel
  Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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• Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

  ― Edmond de Goncourt
  French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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• Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails.

  ― Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

  ― Sir Thomas Browne
  British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.

  ― Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

  ― Alexander Hamilton
  American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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• Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

  ― Adlai Stevenson II
  American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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• Man is a substance clad in shadows.

  ― John Sterling
  Scottish author (1938 - )
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• Man is a tool-making animal.

  ― Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

  ― Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.

  Source: Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (1973) 5

  ― Carl Sagan
  American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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• Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

  ― Plato
  Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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• Man is a useless passion.

  ― Jean-Paul Sartre
  French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• notwithstanding
• transitional
• determinism
• handwriting
• tool-making
• tool-using

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