Quotes 5281 till 5300 of 10681.
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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.
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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
Pensees (1669) -
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Philosophy and Politics -
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
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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 should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
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Man's mind and not his master makes him slave.
To the Spirit of Byron -
Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
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Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.
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Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.
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Managing is a tough job. When you're young, you just think it's a natural progression - I'm good at this, so I'm going to be good at that - and it's not that way at all.
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