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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
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Man shapes himself through decision that shape his environment.
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Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
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Man should beware of letting his religion spoil his morality.
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone II, 185 -
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
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Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
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Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it.
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Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
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Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
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Man's mind and not his master makes him slave.
To the Spirit of Byron -
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
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Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
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