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Man Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
- Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known…
- People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune... and…
- If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.
- If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl…
- The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that…
- A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized…
- The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom entered the world,…
- Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to…
- No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects,…
- The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards…
- How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is…
- Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
- A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers…
- There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
- During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last…
- It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
- Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
- The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine…
- Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and…
- What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and…
- If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting…
- The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he…
- It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the…
- The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires…
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- 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