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Quotes About Man

Max, she said. He turned and briefly closed his eyes as the girl continued. There was once a strange, small man, she said. Her arms were loose but her hands were fists at her side. But there was a word shaker, too. One of the Jews on his way to Dachau had stopped walking now. He stood absolutely still as the others swerved morosely around him, leaving him completely alone. His eyes staggered and it was so simple. The words were given across from the girl to the Jew.
~ Markus Zusak
There was once a strange, small man. But there was a world shaker, too.
~ Markus Zusak
Soy un imbécil. No, papá. Sólo eres un hombre.
~ Markus Zusak
Max, she said. He turned and briefly closed his eyes as the girl continued. There was once a strange, small man, she said. Her arms were loose but her hands were fists at her side. But there was a word shaker, too.
~ Markus Zusak
god bless the man with the beard, the missing teeth and the poverty Ritchie
~ Markus Zusak
Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness.
~ Markus Zusak
to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness.
~ Markus Zusak
Either we penetrate to the essential character of man and society and discover the outlines of a world order, or we continue as flotsam and jetsam on a flood of transient fads and ideas that will drown us with impartiality.
~ Marshall McLuhan
El hombre que almacena alimentos reaparece incongruentemente como el hombre que almacena información.
~ Marshall McLuhan
any particular idiot in mind?" "I do, indeed. If Tom was actually here on Monday, and he needed an alibi, well, man, he didn't have one!
~ Martha Grimes
Rust is the failure of the work of man. The project, the venture, the experiment: failed, given up on, and not cleaned up after.
~ Martin Amis
it swallows gas like a drunk, but a man who lets guilt ruin pleasure is the pincushion of fate.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
The chief investigator for Special Cases was a composite of the most ordinary features, a stencil of a man.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
Nobody will deny that there is an interest in philosophy today. But—is there anything at all left today in which man does not take an interest, in the sense in which he understands interest?
~ Martin Heidegger
Everything is functioning. That is precisely what is terror-inducing, that everything functions, that the functioning propels everything more and more toward further functioning, and that technicity increasingly dislodges man and uproots him from the earth.
~ Martin Heidegger
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
~ Martin Heidegger
Language is neither merely the field of expression, nor merely the means of expression, nor merely the two jointly. Thought and poesy never just use language to express themselves with its help; rather, thought and poesy are in themselves the originary, the essential, and therefore also the final speech that language speaks through the mouth of man.
~ Martin Heidegger
Man does not decide whether and how beings appear, whether and how God and the gods or history and nature come forward into the clearing of Being, come to presence and depart. The advent of beings lies in the destiny of Being. But for man it is ever a question of finding what is fitting in his essence that corresponds to such destiny; for in accord with this destiny man as ek-sisting has to guard the truth of Being. Man is the shepherd of Being.
~ Martin Heidegger
Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
~ Martin Heidegger
As ek-sisting, man sustains Da-sein in that he takes the Da, the clearing of Being, into care.
~ Martin Heidegger
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
~ Martin Heidegger
May we talk of a 'higher' and a 'lower' at all in the realm of what is essential? Is the essence of man higher than the essence of the animal? All this is questionable even as a question.
~ Martin Heidegger
If I was summoned by faith, I'd close down my workshop ... Philosophy deals only with that thought which man can procure from his own means: as soon as it is summoned by Revelation, philosophy ceases.
~ Martin Heidegger
The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.