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Man Quotes by Henry Miller
- ...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.
- I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
- Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
- No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead…
- The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
- The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial…
- In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
- The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
- And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
- Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
- In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death,…
- No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of…
- There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that…
- Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.
- It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet been able to…
- The earth is not a lair, neither is it a prison. The earth is a Paradise, the only one we'll ever know. We will realize…
- The city grows like a cancer; I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red; it is an insatiable…
- For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has…
- This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face…
- Over there you think of nothing but becoming President of the United States some day. Potentially every man is Presidential timber. Here it's different. Here…
- You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not forgo the man,…
- The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to…
- Begin this moment, wherever you find yourself, and take no thought of the morrow. Look not to Russia, China, India, not to Washington, not to…
- I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love,…
- I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you…
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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