Quotes with man-being

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  • Charles Lamb 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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  • Aristotle 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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  • G. C. Lichtenberg 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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  • Carl Sandburg 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.
    The People Will Live On (1936)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • William Hazlitt 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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  • G. C. Lichtenberg 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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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
    The Zookeepers Wife (2008)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken 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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  • Sir Thomas Browne 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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  • Oscar Wilde 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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  • Alexander Hamilton Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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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  • Adlai Stevenson II 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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  • John Sterling Man is a substance clad in shadows.
    John Sterling
    Scottish author (1938 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Man is a tool-making animal.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Thomas Carlyle 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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  • Carl Sagan Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.
    Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (1973) 5
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Plato Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Man is a useless passion.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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