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- The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.
- In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his…
- If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
- The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new…
- We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
- Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.
- What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
- Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world
- Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite…
- "Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive…
- The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.
- Man is a fugitive from nature.
- The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot…
- This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires,…
- The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man.
- Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.
- Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.…
- [T]he direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of this…
- He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment, is only acquainted…
- [I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly…
- [I]t would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of to-day of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold,…
- This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform of "youth" as…
- Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa…
- Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.
- Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being , and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
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