Quotes with man-being

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• Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• Man will not live without answers to his questions.

  ― Hans J. Morgenthau
   
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• Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

  ― Winston Churchill
  English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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• Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

  ― Antonio Machado
  Spanish writer and poet (1875 - 1939)
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• Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

  ― Erich Fromm
  German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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• Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

  ― Reinhold Niebuhr
  American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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• Man's character is his fate.

  ― Heraclitus
  Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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• Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

  ― Alexander Maclaren
  British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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• Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.

  ― Nelson Mandela
  South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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• Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

  ― Blaise Pascal
  French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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• Man's life is a warfare against the malice of men.

  ― Baltasar Gracian
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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• Man's life is like unto a winter's day, Some break their fast and so depart away, Others stay dinner then depart full fed; The longest age but sups and goes to bed. Oh, reader, then behold and see, As we are now so must you be.

  ― Bishop Joseph Henshaw
   
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• Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

  ― Lord George Byron
  English poet (1788 - 1824)
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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.

  ― Erich Fromm
  German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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• Man's mind and not his master makes him slave.

  Source: To the Spirit of Byron

  ― Robert Underwood Johnson
  American journalist, writer and diplomat (1853 - 1937)
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• Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

  ― Dorothea Brande
  American writer and editor (1893 - 1948)
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• Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

  ― Desiderius Erasmus
  Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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• Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

  ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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• Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.

  ― Auguste Rodin
  French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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• Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

  ― Marquis de Sade
  French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• occasionally
• specifically
• extinguished
• potentially
• personality
• susceptible

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