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- A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles.…
- Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe…
- Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
- Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they…
- Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a…
- Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law, into some realm…
- Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed…
- Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad…
- Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp... If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden…
- Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through the pangs of…
- I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.
- Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the most remarkable. .…
- It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
- It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the…
- Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.
- It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to…
- It has been said that great art is the night thought of man. It may emerge without warning from the soundless depths of the unconscious,…
- Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued to exist at all, would be…
- When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all…
- As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going…
- One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a…
- In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense…
- Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.
- Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.
- God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
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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
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- 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
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle