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«Man cannot live by incompetence alone.»
«Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things»
«Man does not bring to God's altar the stuff of nature in itself, in its initial structure, but something he has made and molded out of nature for the nourishment and the inspiration of men.»
«Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Logic,
Mankind,
Truth
| Keywords:
abstract, abstracted, abstracting, deductions, deny, distort, evidence, intentionally, justify, predilection, predilections, senses, systems
«Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny»
Author: Paul Tillich
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Destiny,
Mankind
| Keywords:
fulfill, supposed
«Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food, but God has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness, and laughter to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marble»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
God,
Mankind
| Keywords:
brightness, enliven, enlivened, enlivens, flavor, pained, pilgrimage, tasteless
«Man counts what he has refused, not what he has given»
«Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is impiety»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind,
Men,
Pride
| Keywords:
feeble, impieties, impiety, insolence, submission
«Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.»
«Man at his birth is content with a little milk and a piece of flannel: so we begin, that presently find kingdoms not enough for us»
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