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Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
Henry David Thoreau
Man must not think that he is on a level either with the brutes or with the angels, nor must he be ignorant of both sides of his nature; but he must know both.
Blaise Pascal
What wise or stupid thing can man conceive That was not thought of in ages long ago?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the Catholic Church, especially, they go into chancery, make a clean confession, give up all, and think to start again. Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
Charles Dickens
Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden. Man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken.
Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
Albert Camus
If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things.
Leo Tolstoy
Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most compelling problems are not solved then, they only begin. He strives for power or for love, or for destruction, he risks his life for religious, for political, for humanistic ideals, and these strivings are what constitutes and characterizes the peculiarity of human life.
Erich Fromm, Man For Himself (Ne
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Orson Welles
The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.
Margaret Mead
Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.
Chungliang Al Huang
Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
Kurt Vonnegut
But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it.
Ernest Hemingway
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Thomas Jefferson
A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.
Samuel Johnson
I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
Mark Twain
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
