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  • Oscar Wilde Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Meister Eckhart Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Captain Beefheart Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
    Captain Beefheart
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1941 - 2010)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Man has his will, but woman has her way.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • George Gurdjieff Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Man has will, but woman has her way.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Sigmund Freud Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Henry Vaughan Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there
    Henry Vaughan
    Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Aldous Huxley Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Lord George Byron Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • John Donne 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.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Betty Friedan Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Leo Tolstoy Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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