Quotes 261 till 280 of 4532.
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
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Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
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Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
― Frederick Douglass
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Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals.
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Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
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Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
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No man can help another without helping himself.
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