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Man Quotes by Arthur Koestler
- The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an…
- If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he…
- The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort…
- Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation…
- No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as…
- The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause,…
- man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning…
- Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the…
- The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.
- The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
- History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations
- Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom…
- Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of…
- If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has…
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