Quotes with one-man

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• Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

  Source: The Zookeepers Wife (2008)

  ― Abraham Joshua Heschel
  Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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• Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

  ― Edmond de Goncourt
  French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

  ― Alexander Hamilton
  American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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• 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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• 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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• Man is a substance clad in shadows.

  ― John Sterling
  Scottish author (1938 - )
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• Man is a tool-making animal.

  ― Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• 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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• Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.

  Source: Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (1973) 5

  ― Carl Sagan
  American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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• Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

  ― Plato
  Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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• Man is a useless passion.

  ― Jean-Paul Sartre
  French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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• Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

  ― Ogden Nash
  American poet (1902 - 1971)
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• Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.

  ― Aldous Huxley
  English writer (1894 - 1963)
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• Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this - one dog does not change a bone with another.

  ― Adam Smith
  Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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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.

  ― William S. Burroughs
  American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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• Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

  ― Albert Camus
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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• Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

  ― Augusto Roa Bastos
  Paraguayan novelist and writer (1917 - 2005)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• simultaneously
• consciousness
• plagiarizing
• grasshopper
• worlds-the
• generation

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