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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.
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Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
The Virtue of Selfishness (1964) -
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.
Pensees (1669) -
Man knows so much and does so little.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
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Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
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Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle.
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
Pensees (1669)
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