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Man Quotes by Ezra Pound
- The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never…
- There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to…
- Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
- Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and…
- The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull…
- With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.
- The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt,…
- Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
- I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
- A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
- A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
- No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
- Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of…
- No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.
- Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
- There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight
- This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
- With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
- You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one…
- If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
- What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
- A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
- Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he…
- There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.
- One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A…
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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