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- Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond…
- Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
- Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of…
- For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the…
- What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is…
- We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They…
- Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
- It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
- The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear…
- For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final…
- But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to…
- Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once…
- A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes - within the limits…
- Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas…
- A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
- What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to…
- A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
- Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every…
- Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult…
- Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in…
- As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to biological, psychological and…
- The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives…
- To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an…
- No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
- To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental…
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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