Quotes with man-being

Quotes 1761 till 1780 of 6261.

  • Simone Weil Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
    Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Mark Twain Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Alfred de Vigny France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Rollo May Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
    Rollo May
    American psychologist
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  • Seneca Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Archibald MacLeish Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.
    Archibald MacLeish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Charles Edward Jerningham Frequently, the extraordinary man is only the ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances.
    Source: The maxims of Marmaduke
    Charles Edward Jerningham
    English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
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  • Camille Paglia Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling. Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Beilby Porteus Friend to the wretch whom every friend forsakes, I woo thee, Death! Life and its joys I leave to those that prize them. Hear me, 0 gracious God! At Thy good time let Death approach; I reck not, let him but come in genuine form, not with Thy vengeance armed, too much for man to bear.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • August Strindberg Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Marguerite Duras Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Samuel Butler From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Immanuel Kant From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • Bill Mumy From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like being in a huge comic so we jumped at the chance of being part of that project and it proved to be a good choice.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Brendon Urie From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, start being a part of that whole thing.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Margot Asquith From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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