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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde
Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.
Arthur Balfour, The Foundations
A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas Carlyle
The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
Samuel Johnson
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Voltaire
What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he's done, and that's as good as any man ever gets.
Orson Scott Card
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.
Ernest Hemingway
If there's no place in the universe for a man to resist the thieves of freedom and still be called a good man, then I don't think there is any good or evil in the universe.
Religion must so be the object and center to which all things tend, that whoever knows the principles of religion can give an explanation both of the whole nature of man in particular, and of the whole course of the world in general.
Blaise Pascal
The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
George Bernard Shaw
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
Victor Hugo
Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left, according to men, is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. The penis is sensate; the penis is the man; the man is human; the penis signifies humanity.
Andrea Dworkin
Who is unhappy at having only one mouth? And who is not unhappy at having only one eye? Probably no man ever ventured to mourn at not having three eyes. But any one is inconsolable at having none.
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.
Henry David Thoreau
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
...by association with natures enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also. There is a way of looking upon a landscape as a moving picture and being satisfied with nothing less big as a moving picture, a way of looking upon tropic clouds over the horizon as the backdrop of a stage and being satisfied with nothing less big as a backdrop, a way of looking upon the mountain forests as a private garden and being satisfied with nothing less as a private garden, a way of listening to the roaring waves as a concert and being satisfied with nothing less as a concert, and a way of looking upon the mountain breeze as an air-cooling system and being satisfied with nothing less as an air-cooling system. So do we become big, even as the earth and firmaments are big. Like the 'Big Man' described by Yuan Tsi (A.D. 210-263), one of China's first romanticists, we 'live in heaven and earth as our house.'
Lin Yutang, The Importance of Li
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.
Thornton Wilder, attributed
I mean, after all; you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's a sort of bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it. You get me?
Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigma
The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris.
Sigmund Freud
