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Man Quotes by Rene Dubos
- Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
- There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the…
- Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.
- Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population…
- It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.
- Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization.
- Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts…
- Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols…
- Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the…
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- 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