man Quotes

“The question of the position of man, as an animal, has given rise to much disputation, with the result of proving that there is no anatomical or developmental character by which he is more widely distinguished from the group of animals most...”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

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“Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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“A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”

― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

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“OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“I think if the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“Woman knows man well enough where he is weak, but she is quite unable to fathom him where he is strong. The fact is that man is as much a mystery to woman as woman is to man. If that were not so, the separation of the sexes would only have been a...”

― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

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“The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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“When we see a natural style, we are astonished and delighted; for we expected to see an author, and we find a man.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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