Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Nature of man

Author

Charles Caleb Colton

Source

Lacon

Language

English

Time

1820 1820s 19th century

Occupation

Clergyman Writer

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Citation

Colton, Charles Caleb. Lacon: Or Many Things In Few Words Addressed To Those Who Think. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.

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There is a silence where hath been no sound,
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In the cold grave-under the deep, deep sea.

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Silence

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Thomas Hood
Source
Silence
Medium
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Language
English
Time
1827 1820s 19th century
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Original Citation

Hood, Thomas. "Silence." The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur and Other Poems. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green/Philadelphia: E. Littell, 1827.

Current Citation

Hood, Thomas. "Silence." Selected Poems of Thomas Hood. Harvard University Press, 1970.

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Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Nature of man The human condition

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Genre
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Language
German
Time
1883 1880s 19th century
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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen [Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner, 1883, pt. 1.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, edited by Robert Pippin, translated by Adrian Del Caro. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pt. 1.