SOME SHORT QUOTES ON MAN

 

SOME SHORT QUOTES ON MAN

A great many thinkers, poets, writers, philosophers, saints and scientists have expressed their views about what man is. Here are some very short quotes.

1.     To me man looks like God’s wonderful feat of artistic and biological engineering.

2.     Man is a rational animal.

3.      Man is God’s deputy on earth. 4. Half dust, half deity, alike unfit to sink or soar. ---English romantic poet Lord Byron (1788-1824 ).

4.     Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. –French poet Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869).

5.      When man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes. ---American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864).

6.      Man is a wealth grabber, man is a pleasure seeker; man is a power wielder; man is a thinker, and man is a creative lover. ---American inventor Graham Bell (1847-1922).

7.      Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. ---Alexander Hamilton, American statesman (1757-1804).

      And finally what the English poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744)  said : The proper study of mankind is man.

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G. R. Kanwal

19^th April 2024