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- The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon…
- Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.
- The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do…
- Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.
- When the theory of evolution destroyed the picture of God as the supreme Creator, confidence in God as the all-powerful Father of man fell with…
- The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense…
- Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for…
- Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.
- Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store…
- Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for…
- Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most compelling…
- Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as…
- Man absolutely cannot live by himself.
- Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges…
- Love is the only way of knowledge, which in the act of union answers my quest. In the act of loving, of giving myself, in…
- The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
- Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
- Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is…
- In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
- The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
- Man always dies before he is fully born.
- The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
- There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
- Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
- The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from…
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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