Centaurs Quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset

Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.

— Primo Levi

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of…

— Murray Rothbard

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.

— Henry Beston

Man is ultimately not molded or shaped into humanness. The environment does not give him potentialities and capacities; he has them in inchoate or…

— Abraham Maslow

All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential…

— Gottfried Leibniz

As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of…

— Ernst Haeckel

Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon…

— Adam Sedgwick

Nature includes all of the universe and man is not only a part of nature, he is in it up to his neck.

— N.J. Berrill

Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.

— Daniel D. Palmer

“Man is out of nature and hopelessly in it; he is dual, up in the stars and yet housed in a heart-pumping, breath-gasping body…

— Ernest Becker

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from…

— Northrop Frye