Quotes with man-being

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  • Plautus The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Albert J. Nock The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Carlos Fuentes The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Winston Churchill The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Malthus The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.
    Source: An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) VII, 20, 2-4
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • James Baldwin The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Eric Hoffer The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • C. J. Mahaney The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.
    C. J. Mahaney
    American Christian minister (1953 - )
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • J. Clare The present is the funeral of the past, and man the living sepulchre of life.
    J. Clare
     
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  • Seneca The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • John Lennon The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Adam Sedgwick The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
    Adam Sedgwick
     
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  • James Baldwin The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Boris Sidis The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.
    Source: Philistine and Genius (1919)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Germaine Greer The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Joseph Campbell The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • Thomas Hobbes The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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