Man is the measure of all things', said the Sophist Protagora (c. 485-410 B.C.). By that he meant that the question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a person's needs.
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Jostein Gaarder
A PRIME TRUTH - MAN IS SELFISH(Name of chapter)
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William J. Federer
Suffering introduces a man to his soul.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
Why, you are a man of heart! "" Sometimes, " replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.
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Jules Verne
Yes, yes, I see it all! – an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall...
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Miguel De Unamuno
More Quotes By Steve Goodier
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.
All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they say, must certainly be their last, inasmuch as its close will be so great a shock that nothing can survive it. Every change...
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
