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Man Quotes by Emile M. Cioran
- In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
- The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
- Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
- You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry,…
- So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.
- Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
- The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
- The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational…
- Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality.…
- What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.
- Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.
- Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate…
- A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime...
- Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by…
- To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the…
- There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the…
- The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.
- The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule;…
- The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert…
- Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.
- Man is a robot with defects.
- A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he…
- Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.
- We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their…
- If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is…
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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