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Man Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the…
- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
- A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down…
- To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to…
- A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the…
- To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a…
- Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a…
- Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.
- If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives…
- America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an…
- A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public…
- Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity…
- Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one
- A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.
- The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
- Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the…
- The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach: The Ogre cannot master speech. About a…
- The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
- The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal…
- Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse…
- There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which…
- The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal…
- Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
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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