Has beens Quote by Cees Nooteboom

Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be seized and…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There is a tragic kind of joke. You really can't keep a man down - good but often otherwise - because history's mechanics are…

— Wesley Morris

Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself…

— Maria Montessori

“He finally understood...the thing that the people during the Paleolitic Age, freaking 20,000 to 8,000 B.C., were after when they came up with mythologies…

— Maud Casey

You know, you can't see or touch and isn't embodied. But they were all fallible, the Gods. And they would kind of rise and…

— Rachel Weisz

“Now a new era had dawned upon the world, which quivered with the impact of tremendous forces, of discoveries and inventions. Man rode upon…

— Robert Nathan

How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he…

— Paul Claudel

Well, it's like that myth about the hero. He made wings out of wax so he could fly, but when he got too close…

— Hiromu Arakawa

All that could run or leap or swim Whether in wood, water or cloud, Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.

— William Butler Yeats

Man wasn't made to share the universe with gods. Their ways are not meant for the humble likes of us. But we've decoded some…

— Darren Shan

Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.

— Jack Gilbert

Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.

— Robert Payne