Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
Plato
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A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers.
SUZY KASSEM A heart without wings is like a bird without feathers.
SUZY KASSEM Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
PLATO Flight without feathers is not easy.
PLAUTUS Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
THOMAS CARLYLE Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with...
THOMAS CARLYLE The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.
WARREN E. BURGER The trial of a case is a three legged stool: a judge and two advocates.
WARREN E. BURGER Otherwise you're like a three-legged stool on two legs.
ELIZABETH LANGLAND Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innoce...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures
generally content themselves with ...
JOHN LOCKE Man is a bad animal....
BRION GYSIN He was a big long-legged black animal. As he got bigger that ankle blended in to his size and it was...
LEROY ADCOCK For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into a...
NORMAN O. BROWN You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
ROWAN ATKINSON Man is a clothed animal; almost.
AHMED MOSTAFA He's a thick-legged kid, ... Just imagine a porter with two bags. That's him when he's overweight.
BILL PARCELLS Man is by nature a civic animal.
ARISTOTLE Man is by nature a political animal.
FISHER AMES Man is by nature a political animal.
ARISTOTLE A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicat...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
ROWAN ATKINSON Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Meat is a 4-legged word.
MANGO WODZAK He was a wise man who invented beer.
PLATO Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
REBECCA WEST And all to leave what with his toil he won,
To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.
JOHN DRYDEN And all to leave, what with this toil he won, / To that unfeathered, two-legged thing, a son.
JOHN DRYDEN Man is the cruelest animal.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man is the lowest animal.
MARK TWAIN The door flew open, in he ran, / The great, long, red-legged scissor-man.
HEINRICH HOFFMAN When a man is at peace he is a man, when angry he is an animal.
AMIT KALANTRI Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a ...
TOM WAITS Man is the animal who laughs,
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Neither man nor any animal can enjoy life to the full without taking some risks to life or limb.
PHILIP BROWN The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chie...
ERNEST BECKER Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal.
SUZY KASSEM Plato is boring.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Plato's dialogues bear...
BENJAMIN JOWETT Little James Herondale, age two, was in fact holding a dagger quite well. He stabbed it into a sofa ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accostumed to everything.
FIODOR DOSTOIEVSKY My mind was formed by studying philosophy, WERNER HEISENBERG Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this--one dog does not change a bone with...
ADAM SMITH Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Plato was the first to instil this idea that the soul can live without the body but the body cannot ...
FATHER MARK MONTEBLLO A man without a vote is man without protection.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON A man without words is a man without thought.
JOHN STEINBECK Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfi...
HENRY GEORGE Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
SAMUEL BUTLER The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
LEWIS CARROLL A man without a vote is a man without protection.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a ...
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE Man has been adjudged a social animal.
FRANCES WRIGHT Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.
GEORGES BATAILLE Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.
ROBIN A.H. WATERFIELD Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with anothe...
ADAM SMITH All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
GEORGE SANTAYANA All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
GEORGE SANTIANO Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he ...
CHANAKYA Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because...
HANS J. MORGENTHAU He had anticipated every question. And he knew how to answer them without ruffling any feathers.
LYLE GRAMLEY Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the
grave.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
THOMAS BROWNE Plato was a bore.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE My parents had two blind dogs, and they did fine. I have a three-legged cat at home that had been hi...
BRETT SHARMAN Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of anima...
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal...
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and nev...
EMILY DICKINSON A feather is a sign from the angels. It is a response to a question, a thought or an emotion. It's t...
EILEEN ANGLIN Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
MARK TWAIN Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
MARK TWAIN Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.
MARK TWAIN Man is the only animal species who dont believe eachother.
SHANNY A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about
MICHAEL GRANT God bestows upon one man genius without patience and upon another man patience without genius. The r...
WALTER C. KLEIN Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student...
TOM MORRIS Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words --...
EMILY DICKINSON "Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the word...
EMILY DICKINSON Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - a...
EMILY DICKINSON To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.
VALERIE SOLANIS The Seven Commandments:
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
Whatever goes upon four l...
GEORGE ORWELL I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and fe...
W. R. INGE PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and im...
AMBROSE BIERCE Not only a man without hand is handicapped but also a man without health.
AMIT KALANTRI I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance...
QUENTIN BLAKE Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure o...
GHOSE AUROBINDO Man is a make-believe animal -- he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part
WILLIAM HAZLITT Man, an animal that makes bargains.
A. C. BENSON Man, an animal that makes bargains.
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PLATO It is right to give every man his due.
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PLATO The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
PLATO He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
PLATO As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
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PLATO Democracy passes into despotism.
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PLATO Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
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PLATO Courage is a kind of salvation.
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PLATO For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
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PLATO Love is a serious mental disease.
PLATO This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
PLATO Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
PLATO Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
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PLATO When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
PLATO All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
PLATO Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
PLATO Life must be lived as play.
PLATO Necessity... the mother of invention.
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PLATO There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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PLATO Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
PLATO The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
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PLATO Truth is its own reward.
PLATO They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
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PLATO Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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PLATO Even the gods love jokes.
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PLATO The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
PLATO He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
PLATO Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
PLATO Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
PLATO Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled t...
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PLATO Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich...
PLATO The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
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PLATO These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeabl...
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PLATO To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either ...
PLATO We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like Go...
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PLATO In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely ...
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PLATO When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
PLATO The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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PLATO The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
PLATO The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair
Across the tide to see her image there:
Then looking u...
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PLATO Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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PLATO This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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PLATO False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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PLATO Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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PLATO Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
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PLATO Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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PLATO You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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