Lorenz Oken Inspirational Quotes (5)

Man is the summit, the crown of nature's development, and must comprehend everything that has preceded him, even as the fruit includes within itself all the earlier developed parts of the plant. In a word, Man must represent the whole world in miniature.

During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes in time.

The eye takes a person into the world. The ear brings the world into a human being.

The whole of a human being is merely a vertebra.

The cells are thus the stomachs of which the plant has millions like mouths.