Philosophy•Dialogue•Determinism
What Is Man? (Excerpts)
Mark Twain(1906)
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Pages: 25
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0-14-043706-5
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Selected excerpts from Twain's philosophical dialogue on human nature and free will.
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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
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What Is Man? (Excerpts)
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Man is a machine. A machine is not responsible for its actions.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
There are no self-made men. We are made up of thousands of others.
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.