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Man Quotes by Claude Levi-Strauss
- Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the…
- The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
- Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in…
- Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
- Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods,…
- The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
- Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in…
- The world began without man, and it will end without him.
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