Man Quotes

• "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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• "Man is more ape than many of the apes."
  By: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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• "He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger."
  By: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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• "We are like sailors who must rebuild their ship on the open sea, never able to dismantle it in dry-dock and to reconstruct it there out of the best materials."
  By: Otto Neurath, in "Current History"
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• "Men, in general, are but great children."
  By: Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I)
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• "To say, for example, that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer."
  By: Herman Joseph Muller, Science and Criticism
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• "Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing."
  By: Christopher Darlington Morley
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• "So weak is man, so ignorant and blind, that did not God sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, we should be ruined at our own request."
  By: Hannah More
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• "The mould is lost wherein was made This a per se of all."
  By: Alexander Montgomery
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• "Man, in sooth, marvelous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject."
  By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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• "Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?"
  By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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• "Ah! to be devout, I am none the less human. [Fr., Ah! pour etre devot, je n'en suis pas moins homme.]"
  By: Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin), Tartuffe (III, 3)
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• "In their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude serene and pure."
  By: John Milton
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• "In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return."
  By: John Milton
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• "Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself."
  By: John Stuart Mill
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• "But in our Sanazarro 'tis not so, He being pure and tried gold; and any stamp Of grace, to make him current to the world, The duke is pleased to give him, will add honour To the great bestower; for he, though allow'd Companion to his master, still preserves His majesty in full lustre."
  By: Philip Massinger, Great Duke of Florence (act I, sc. 1)
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