Ordinary Man Quotes
78 quotes by 63 authors
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The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from God. Starting from here, the…
— Abdelkader El Djezairi
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The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic is more important…
— Rajneesh
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One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means whereby the rich…
— Lewis Henry Steiner
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While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority…
— Conrad Black
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The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.
— George Orwell
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The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money…
— Benjamin Franklin
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There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them…
— Abraham Maslow
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An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.
— D. H. Lawrence
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The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
— Austin O'Malley
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In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.
— Giorgio Agamben
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Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without…
— Richard Bach
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Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be…
— Augustine Birrell
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The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
— George Steiner
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Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I…
— William Shakespeare
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Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he…
— Rex Harrison
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The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems…
— Sarada Devi
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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
— Loren Eiseley
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There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may be a certain…
— Josiah Wedgwood
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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…
— Loren Eiseley
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