Man Quotes

• "Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed."
  By: Plato (originally Aristocles}, Politicus (266)
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• "Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own."
  By: Plato (originally Aristocles}
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• "I am in search of a man. [Lat., Hominem quaero.]"
  By: Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia), Fables (bk. III, 19, 9)
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• "We are not more than a bubble. [Lat., Nos non pluris sumus quam bullae.]"
  By: Petronius (Caius Petronius Arbiter) 42
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• "He is pepper, not a man. [Lat., Piper, non homo.]"
  By: Petronius (Caius Petronius Arbiter)
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• "What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe!"
  By: Blaise Pascal, Thoughts (ch. X)
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• "It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both."
  By: Blaise Pascal
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• "If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further."
  By: Blaise Pascal
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• "All true manliness grows around a core of divineness."
  By: Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst
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• "Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in."
  By: Theodore Parker
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• "Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at."
  By: Theodore Parker
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• "Nature ne'er meant her secrets to be found, And man's a riddle which man can't expound."
  By: Robert Treat Paine
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• "God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars. [Lat., Os homini sublime dedit coelumque tueri Jussit; et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus.]"
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses (I, 85)
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• "Man's the bad child of the universe."
  By: James Oppenheim, Laughter
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• "We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!"
  By: Novalis (pseudonym of Frederich Leopold von Hardenberg)
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• "I teach you beyond Man [Uebermensch; overman-superman]. Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?"
  By: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
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