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Man Quotes by Stanislaw Lem
- To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
- Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.
- If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently
- The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.
- The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions…
- If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?
- Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without…
- So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates…
- This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we…
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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