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Man Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair oboots to fit…
- That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more…
- Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a…
- Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so…
- The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
- A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets…
- With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
- It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When we say, All…
- In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
- A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable…
- The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not…
- Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking…
- the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be…
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle