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Man Quotes by James Joyce
- When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.
- By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself.…
- When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail…
- Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must…
- I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander…
- A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
- I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust…
- When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I…
- She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in…
- A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
- Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible beacuse there must…
More Man Quotes
- 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