Philosophical literatureGod is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow.Friedrich NietzscheThe Gay Science · 1882★ 9.8
Political literature · Philosophical literatureMan is by nature a political animal.AristotlePolitics · 350 BC★ 8.7
Scientific literatureMan with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system—with all these exalted powers—Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.Charles DarwinThe Descent of Man · 1871★ 8.5