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“Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two, without a possibility of its ever being otherwise.”

Men Two Ideas Ends Universe Animal Pieces Possibility Intellectual Intellect Senses Contradiction Centre Torn Everlasting

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous "Know thyself" inscribed in the temple of Delphi.”

People Knows Men Different Universe Given Higher Standing Errors Command Temples Belonging Centre Sage Deaf Thyself Wisest Know Thyself Delphi Not Belonging Standing Apart

Book:On aggression

Source: On aggression

“The ontological concept of truth is in the centre of a logic which may serve as a model of pre- technological rationality. It is the rationality of a two-dimensional universe of discourse which, contrasts with the of thought and behavior that develop in the execution of the technological project.”

May Two Universe Truth Is Behavior Projects Models Concepts Logic Contrast Execution Technological Centre Discourse Rationality

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“What happened is that in the middle of my life I went away and in my own sense of hubris, pride, cynicism, thought, I am an autonomous being in the world, I can control things, I am God.' But my experiment at being God failed! And they do have a great saying in AA: 'Get down off the cross, we need the wood!' And the important thing is to realise you are not the centre of the universe, you are not God.”

World Needs I Can Important Universe My Own Happened Middle Humour Pride Crosses Important Things Woods Experiments Realising Cynicism Centre Hubris Autonomous

Author:John Waters

“Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.”

Men Believe Soul God Care Universe Belief Brother And Love Every Man My Brother Load Centre God Exists

Book:The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to understand it, because not only does it seem incredible and thoroughly demeaning to us, but it's yet another shock to our system to discover that not only are we not the centre of the Universe and we're not made by anything, but we started out as some kind of slime and got to where we are via being a monkey. It just doesn't read well.”

Wells Kind Long Doe Made Seems Universe Long Time Species Incredibles Shock Centre Monkeys Origin Of Species Slime Demeaning

Book:The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time