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Man Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke
- We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a…
- The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
- If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.
- To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond the first ape-man.…
- If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain…
- Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
- In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were…
- Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of…
- The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.
- There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism,…
- If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.
- Now I understand,” said the last man.
- It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own…
- But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.
- A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth,…
- In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle