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- When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions…
- A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.
- I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
- Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for…
- The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain…
- The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the…
- If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for…
- Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one another…
- Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed…
- But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
- "He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"
- One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We…
- The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question one…
- Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or…
- ... every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations…
- I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but…
- A lady once expressed herself in society - the very words show that they were uttered with fervour and under the pressure of a great…
- Not all men are worthy of love.
- No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern…
- It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no…
- A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.
- It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.
- A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
- Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
- A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the…
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- 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
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