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Creatures Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what…
- Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.
- The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.
- Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still…
- Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
- It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.
- The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to…
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- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has… — Marcus Aurelius
- God's first creature, which was light. — Francis Bacon
- As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. — Francis Bacon
- I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few,… — Abigail Adams
- To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. — Honore de Balzac