Man
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the same time.
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God — by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
I smashed my tailbone and couldn't sit for five years, and I broke my clavicle because I thought I was a great surfer, and of course, I could be a great snowboarder, too. Man, was I wiped out!
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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