A Quote by Rumi
If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.
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"Slightly lower than the angels" is a whole lot better than slightly higher than the apes. Let's get the order straight. God, angelic beings, man, animals, and vegetables.
If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.
The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.
Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than the apes.
As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has provided us, in the latter animals, with an almost complete series of gradations from brains little higher than that of a Rodent, to brains little lower than that of Man.
Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilization than other creatures and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena.
No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.
A man never rises higher than when he does not know whither his path can still lead him.
It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true nature of man. Either man is the creature whom the psalmist described as a little lower than the angels ... or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification. It is, therefore, a struggle which goes to the roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls across the long sweep of man's destiny.
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