Quotes 5521 till 5540 of 11267.
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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.
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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.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.
Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (1973) 5 -
Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this - one dog does not change a bone with another.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
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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.
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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
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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.
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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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