Quotes with man-being

Quotes 6181 till 6200 of 6261.

  • Claude Bernard Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
    Claude Bernard
    French physiologist (1813 - 1878)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • André Gide Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Adam Clarke Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Simone Weil Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Octavio Paz Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • Ludwig Van Beethoven Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
    Ludwig Van Beethoven
    German composer (1770 - 1827)
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  • Paul Boese Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.
    Paul Boese
    American filmmaker
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Denis Diderot No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • George Holbrook Jackson Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
    George Holbrook Jackson
    British journalist, writer and publisher (1874 - 1948)
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