Man Cannot Quotes
253 quotes by 185 authors
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The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man)…
— Andre Maurois
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Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.
— Charles Lamb
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A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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The gods should certainly be revered, but kept at a distance... . The way is not beyond man; he who creates a way outside of…
— Confucius
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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
— Blaise Pascal
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The voice of woman has been silenced in the state, the church, and the home, but man cannot fulfill his destiny alone, he cannot redeem…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
— Wole Soyinka
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I believe that man was created to enjoy himself, indeed, that he can claim it as his legitimate right. In fact, as long as he…
— Kafu Nagai
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Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were…
— Compay Segundo
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If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
— Criss Jami
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... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.
— Samuel Florman
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Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.
— Eric Gill
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What is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the pool…
— Chief Seattle
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Man as seen as an organism or man as seen as a person discloses different aspects of the human reality to the investigator. Both are…
— R. D. Laing
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And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.
— John Galt
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
— Walter Reisch
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Created man cannot become a son of God and god by grace through deification, unless he is first through his own free choice begotten in…
— Maximus the Confessor
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A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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