Person

Person

A person is a being, such as a human, that has certain capacities or attributes constituting personhood, which in turn is defined differently by different authors in different disciplines, and by different cultures in different times and places.

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Famous quotes containing the word person:

    “Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.”
    —Miep Gies (b. c. 1908)