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Mankind

«Man is but a foundling in the cosmos, abandoned by the forces that created him»
Author: Carl Becker | About: Mankind | Keywords: abandoned, foundling
«Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders»
«Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.»
«Man is on earth as in an egg»
Author: Heraclitus of Ephesus | About: Mankind
«Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.»
Author: Thornton Wilder | About: Mankind | Keywords: eighth, eighths
«Man is no man, but a wolf»
«Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.»
«Man is the cruelest animal.»
«Man is a piece of the universe made alive»
«Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye»