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Man Quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick
- The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
- Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be…
- Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.
- No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
- It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to…
- A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in…
- Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal…
- No man need stay the way he is.
- The man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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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