Man Quotes
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All there is, is fragments, because a man, even the loneliest of the species, is divided among several persons, animals, worlds. To know a man more than slightly it would be necessary to gather him together from all those quarters, each last scrap of him, and this done after he is safely dead.
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God is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness. But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun, and you learn only geography. Watch darkness claim it, and for a moment you may grasp why God had to create Satan - or man to create both.
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A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.
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A man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you.
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The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.
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A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
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Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.
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“When a man is truly a man, it makes a woman comfortable to truly be a woman.”
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.
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Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?
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No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.
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You don't have a man, you need spaghetti.
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I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me interesting to demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western. An assassin can display a sublime altruism while a good man can kill with total indifference.
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The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.
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Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
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No man should be angry with what is true.
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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...for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
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The man of humanity delights in mountains.
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
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The right words are always there, if a man's sharp enough to see them.
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Every white liberal straight man needs to take action and work at unifying all peoples of our sides and stop making women and people of color and the LGBT community fight it out themselves and just pat them on the back. We have to take active roles in supporting them, defending them, and hiring them.
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A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.
