Definition of Creature

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Creature

Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature.

A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.

A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc.

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Creature Quotations

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Mark Twain

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Theodore Roosevelt

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
George Orwell

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.
Marcus Aurelius

Every creature is a word of God.
Meister Eckhart

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Swami Vivekananda

God's first creature, which was light.
Francis Bacon

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus

Creature Translations

creature in Dutch is wezen
creature in Latin is creatura
creature in Portuguese is criatura
creature in Spanish is criatura
creature in Swedish is varelse

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