Creatures Quote by Thomas Carlyle Download Open image “Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.” — Thomas Carlyle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creatures Humanity Humankind Men Nature Proselytizing
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man?” — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child withinus--i.e.,… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with… — Dan Mathews Copy Share Image
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
