Quotes with man-being

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  • Thomas Hobbes 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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  • Eric Hoffer Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • James Thurber Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Voltaire Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Samuel Butler Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate comprehensivity. Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
    Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • René Daumal Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Oscar Wilde Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry S. Haskins Man is liberated from his illusions to make room for a fresh set.
    Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 92
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Oscar Wilde Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • James Allen Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Man is more powerful than matter.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • W.S. Gilbert Man is Nature's sole mistake.
    W.S. Gilbert
     
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Norman Cousins Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • John Dewey Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Man is not made for defeat.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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