William Shakespeare What a piece of work is a man how noble in reaso Quotes

"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!--and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delighteth not me..." William Shakespeare Mankind, Man More from William Shakespeare Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. William Shakespeare God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts into one. William Shakespeare When we are born, we cry that we are come, To this great stage of fools. William Shakespeare With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. William Shakespeare Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. William Shakespeare Fight till the last gasp. William Shakespeare The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it. William Shakespeare The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. William Shakespeare There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Then are dreamt of in your philosophy. William Shakespeare Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried. William Shakespeare More in the Mankind, Man category For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much--the wheel, New York, wars and so on--while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man--for precisely the same reasons. Douglas Adams Mankind, Man Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies his superiority over the forces that pervade his outward life. He is that unique organism in terms of matter and energy, space and time, which is urged to conscious purpose. Reason is his characteristic and indistinguishing principle. But man is only man -- and free -- when he considers himself as a total being in whom "the unmediated whole of feeling and thought" is not severed and who impugns any form of atomization as artificial, mischievous, and predatory. Ruth Nanda Anshen Mankind, Man Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it. Marcus Aurelius Mankind, Man Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets. … We survey the past, and see that its history is of blood and tears, of helpless blundering, of wild revolt, of stupid acquiescence, of empty aspirations. We sound the future, and learn that after a period, long compared with the individual life, but short indeed compared with the divisions of time open to our investigation, the energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish. The uneasy conscience, which in this obscure corner has for a brief space broken the contented silence of the universe, will be at rest. Matter will know itself no longer. ‘Imperishable moments’ and ‘immortal deeds’, death itself, and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. Nor will anything that is be better or worse for all that the labour, genius, devotion, and suffering of man have striven through countless generations to effect. Arthur Balfour Mankind, Man Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. Max Beerbohm Mankind, Man We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings--animals and plants--are in any sense unreal, insubstantial, or illusory beccause they do not so exist. We merely state that the reality of these nonhuman realms differs from that of human existence, whose primary characteristic is Dasein (literally "being-the-there")...Man as man is present...in a manner wholly different from...inanimate things. Medard Boss Mankind, Man "... a total being who can do many different things - think, fight, remember, love, anticipate, copulate, sing, laugh, imagine. All the activities can be used for good ends, all can be abused and turned to evil ends." Robert McAfee Brown Mankind, Man "It's interesting, in light of Emerson's warning that faith cannot be created but must grow, that the seventh principle, which affirms our reverence for the interdependent web of all existence, was the one part of the purposes and principles that wasn't debated across the continent, that wasn't hammered out in a long and exhaustive process. I am told it came to the floor late in the Columbus, Ohio, General Assembly and it was unanimously accepted virtually without debate." David E. Bumbaugh Mankind, Man After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager." William S. Burroughs Mankind, Man "I mean, after all; you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's a sort of bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it. You get me?" Philip K. Dick Mankind, Man