Quotes 401 till 420 of 795.
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Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.
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Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
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Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.
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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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Man shapes himself through decision that shape his environment.
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Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.
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Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
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Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
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Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.
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Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
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Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
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Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.
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Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. That fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
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