Man Quotes
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In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!
Victor Hugo
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No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.
Oswald Chambers
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I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only I thought I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.
Burton Rascoe
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Every man may think his own cause just till it be heard and judged.
Thomas Hobbes
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The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
Cesare Pavese
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I am quite a positive man in real life. In fact, even when I have a hard discussion with somebody, it lasts only five minutes. Then I forget. And I forgive everything. But at the same time, as I am such an easygoing guy, to create something more intense, I have to be auto-destructive on the making of a film. And this will guarantee some density.
Albert Serra
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Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?
Plato
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There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster.
Barack Obama
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The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
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Man is a biped without feathers.
Plato
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What man does not know, Or has not thought of, Wanders in the night Through the labyrinth of the mind.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.
Sarah Hall
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There is no such thing as a fallen woman - you just need to look for the man who pushed her.
Courtney Milan
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I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'
Corey Haim
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For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.
Bernard Rudofsky
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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Francis Bacon
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No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.
Mahatma Gandhi
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At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility.
Aristotle
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Man lives measuring, and he’s the measure of nothing. Not even of himself.
Antonio Porchia
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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
Victor Hugo
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Man will believe anything, as long as it's not in the bible.
Napoleon Bonaparte