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Man Quotes by Simone Weil
- When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which…
- ...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking…
- A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous…
- A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not…
- When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or…
- Man alone can enslave man.
- The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
- Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the…
- One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is…
- The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At the…
- Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for…
- Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom…
- He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as…
- If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
- The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility…
More Man Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- 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
- 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
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle