Helmuth Plessner Quotes on Nature
Helmuth Plessner was a German philosopher and one of the principal founders, with Max Scheler and Arnold Gehlen, of philosophical anthropology. This page collects quotes attributed to Helmuth Plessner on the topic of nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Helmuth Plessner:
“The human being is by nature artificial.”
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Attributed to Helmuth Plessner:
“We live an eccentric positionality: always at a distance from the body we are.”
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Attributed to Helmuth Plessner:
“Laughing and weeping mark the limits of behavior the body cannot govern.”
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Attributed to Helmuth Plessner:
“We are bodies, and we have bodies; that is the riddle of human existence.”