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Man Quotes by Walter Benjamin
- He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not be afraid to…
- Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
- The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.
- He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may…
- You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.
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