Quotes with man’s

Quotes 1301 till 1320 of 4532.

  • Ludwig Wittgenstein For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the spiritual sphere personified by the animus, whereas for a man it comes from the chthonic realm of the world and woman, i.e., the anima projected on to the world.
    A Study in the Process of Individuation (1934)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Hal Borland For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.
    Hal Borland
    American author, journalist and naturalist
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  • Thomas Carlyle For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Blaise Pascal For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
    Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Breckin Meyer For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.
    Breckin Meyer
    American actor, writer, producer, and drummer (1974 - )
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  • Albert Camus For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Aeschylus For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Joyce Cary For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
    Joyce Cary
    Irish novelist (1888 - 1957)
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  • William Somerset Maugham For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Boethius For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
    De Consolatione Philosophia Book 2, prose 4
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Thomas Carlyle For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ernest Becker For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.
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  • Brendan Gleeson For me, it's just about keeping the standards up. We're a small country, so we have to punch above our weight. I'm not a great man for doing something just because it's Irish, and you never know what's going to work. But as long as we keep the standards up, people will continue to invest in films. It's as simple as that.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • John Milton For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Christina Rossetti For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Haniel Long For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?
    Haniel Long
    American writer, poet, journalist (1888 - 1956)
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  • George Robert Gissing For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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