Quotes for: Man
The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
Albert Camus - Chroniques
People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.
Albert Einstein
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I am human, and I think that nothing of that which is human is alien to me.
Publius Terentius Afer - Heautontimoroumenos
There are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts.
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées
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If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères
No man has received from nature the right to command others. Liberty is a gift from heaven.
Denis Diderot - Encyclopédie
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education
Action, with all its uncertainties, is like an ever-present reminder that men, though they must die, are not born in order to die, but to begin something new.
Hannah Arendt
There is nothing so beautiful and legitimate as to play the man well and properly.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
when we say that a man is responsible for himself, we do not only mean that he is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for all men.
Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism
The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not, than in those who know it.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées
There is only one science to teach to children. It is that of man's duties.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education
Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Of the Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics
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