Concepts Quote by John Steinbeck

“Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, and emerges…

— John Steinbeck

And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes…

— Martin Heidegger

Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms;…

— Bertrand Russell

It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies.…

— Fred Hoyle

“Man is a growth by law, and not a creation by artifice, and cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden…

— James Allen

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

— Robert Payne

With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is a transitional being, he is not final; for in him and high beyond him ascend the radiant degrees which climb to a…

— Sri Aurobindo

“Earth, stars, and the vastness of space; yesterday, today and tomorrow; and the endlessly increasing knowledge of the relation of forces, present an illimitable…

— John A. Widtsoe

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.

— Samuel Florman