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Man Quotes by Matthew Arnold
- The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man…
- For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the…
- Was Christ a man like us?-Ah! let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he!
- To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.
- A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
- Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
- Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
- Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.
- Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make,…
- Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.
- It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the…
- Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears…
- All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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