Centaurs Quote by Primo Levi Download Open image “Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.” — Primo Levi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Centaurs Divine Divine inspiration Dust Flesh Inspiration Men Mind Psychology
Man's being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“the essence of man is really his paradoxical nature, the fact that he is half animal and half symbolic.” — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
The creature called man has a strange history. He is not of one piece, nor was he born of a single moment in time.… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“Man, by means of the imagination, involuntarily contemplates his inner nature; he represents it as out of himself. The nature of man, of the… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day. — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“Válka, to je hlavně velký zmatek, na poli i v lidských hlavách: často člověk ani nechápe, kdo vlastně vítězí a kdo prohrává, o tom… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“An extreme case of the distortion of the memory of a committed guilty act is found in its suppression. Here, too, the borderline between… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“It was the shame we knew so well, the shame that drowned us after the selections, and every time we had to watch, or… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“Willingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is walled in, that… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“We were also born," Line said abruptly. Mendel questioned her with a look, and Line tried to clarify her thought: "Born, expelled. Russia conceived… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“They are the typical product of the structure of the German Lager: if one offers a position of privilege to a few individuals in… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need. — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me greatly, for… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“Stretching one arm behind him, the man passed his hand over the horse's coat, his own skin transformed, or skin which had transformed into… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tyson dropped the two warriors he was about to tie into a knot and jogged after us. He jumped on the centaur's back. 'Dude!'… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
But centaurs never existed; there could never be So to speak a double nature in a single body Or a double body composed of… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
At this slower pace the journey took a couple of days, and I fought off a few minor threats along the way --griffins, carnivorous… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
I can grow cameras!" she had shrieked at the Brill brothers during one briefing. "Who's to say that despicable centaur Foaly hasn't succeded in… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
While Leo fussed over his helm controls, Hazel and Frank relayed the story of the fish-centaurs and their training camp. 'Incredible,' Jason said. 'These… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I am part-demon, part-human. What else does that make me?" She answered his question with one of her own. "I am part-centaur, part-human. Does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe him,” said Hermione in a very unsteady voice, the moment they were out of earshot of Hagrid. “I don’t believe him.… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
He threw his head back and sang, "'I am a centaur, yes, a centaur is what I am.' It's not like you to wax,… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
