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Man Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
- How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
- Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
- The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
- Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
- To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
- I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
- Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
- In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious,…
- Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the…
- It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being…
- In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.
- Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.
- There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
- Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal.…
- There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to…
- Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror.
- But a dandy can never be a vulgar man
- The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
- Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for…
- Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as…
- Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that…
- The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish…
- Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best, your father, Your mother, your sister, or your brother? I have neither father, nor mother, nor…
- This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of…
- The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege…
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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