Quotes with man-being

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  • John Berger Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Salman Rushdie Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Marquis de Custine Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
    Marquis de Custine
    French aristocrat and writer
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  • Henry David Thoreau Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Karl Marx Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
    Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jonathan Swift Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Eric Hoffer Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Daniel Defoe Necessity makes a honest man a knave.
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Janice Galloway Needing people yet being afraid of them is wearing me out.
    Gewoon blijven adem halen (1989)
    Janice Galloway
    Scottish writer (1955 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
    An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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