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- Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a…
- The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
- Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
- If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the…
- The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
- I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
- Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
- We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to…
- It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.
- All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
- All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to…
- When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with…
- Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
- Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.
- Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
- No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the…
- It is dangerous to explain too clearly to man how like he is to the animals without pointing out his greatness. It is also dangerous…
- Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take…
- Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything…
- To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a…
- What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all…
- Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy…
- The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.
- We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it.…
- Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle