Creature Quotes

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As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature… — Marcus Aurelius
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth. — Morris West
My virginity, that from my childhood kept me company, is heavier than I can endure to bear. Forgive me, Cupid, for thou art god, and… — Francis Beaumont
Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and other times was… — Rod Serling
Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape. — Doris Lessing
In A Man With a Pipe, my brother observed that although my father had been seen as intellectual and my mother more a creature of… — Madeleine Albright
It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way...… — David Brainerd
God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image. — Irving Layton
There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for… — Colleen McCullough
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our… — Sri Aurobindo
Love is purely a creation of the human imagination... the most important example of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits. — Katherine Anne Porter
Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you've built up around a person and force… — Marilyn Manson
For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the… — Loren Eiseley
I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72… — Robert Ballard
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling… — Charles Caleb Colton
Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason… — Huston Smith
First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke the sea, only… — Roger Bacon
A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate… — Walter Savage Landor

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