Quotes with plains-man

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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.

  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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• Man is an imagining being.

  Gaston Bachelard
  French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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• Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.

  Aldous Huxley
  English writer (1894 - 1963)
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• Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

  Ezra Pound
  American poet (1885 - 1972)
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• Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

  George Santayana
  Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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• Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.

  Baltasar Gracian
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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• Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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• Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• over-complicated
• consciousness
• plagiarizing
• intelligence
• predestined
• generation

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