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Men Quotes by Max Lerner
- Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in…
- America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
- There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in…
- Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.
- God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and…
- In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to…
- Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
- The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail…
- We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The…
- It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.
- A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command…
- Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.
- The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness…
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