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Man Quotes by Saul Bellow
- A man is only as good as what he loves.
- But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work…
- I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die,…
- The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human…
- An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange of souls takes…
- Each man has his own batch of poems.
- The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.
- I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make…
- In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main…
- Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to…
- A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's…
- It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou…
- Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for…
- A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.
- The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it —…
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