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- The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a…
- A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh…
- No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate…
- Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
- What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
- Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
- The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
- In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the…
- In real life there is no such thing as the average man.
- Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.
- Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.
- If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect…
- The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity…
- Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things…
- I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to…
- Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly…
- The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their…
- Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of…
- The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
- Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
- Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of…
- In life, man proposes, God disposes.
- Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
- A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance…
- Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
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- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle