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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.
Source: Pensees (1669) -
Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
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Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Source: Philosophy and Politics -
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
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Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.
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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 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 torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now...
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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 was created a little lower than the angels and has bin getting a little lower ever since.
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Man was nature's mistake - she neglected to finish him - and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
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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 will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
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Man's life is like unto a winter's day, Some break their fast and so depart away, Others stay dinner then depart full fed; The longest age but sups and goes to bed. Oh, reader, then behold and see, As we are now so must you be.
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Man's mind and not his master makes him slave.
Source: To the Spirit of Byron -
Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
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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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