Quotes 2321 till 2340 of 4532.
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Man is the inventor of stupidity.
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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid... There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.
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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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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.
Source: 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.
Source: Pensees (1669) -
Man knows so much and does so little.
― Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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