#humanity

If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that

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Every time a man has brought victory to the dignity of the spirit, every time a man has said no to an attempt to enslave

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It is not better for human beings to get all they want.

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Perhaps you regard this thinking about myself as a waste of time – but how can I be a logician before I’m a human being! Far

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The unemployed and the starving do not lay claim to truth. They do not say they represent the truth because they are the

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What cannot man live through! Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition

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Creativeness is something mysterious and hidden. The revelation of creativeness does not come from above but rather from below —...

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Man is man the world over. This fact is affirmed and admitted in any effort to deny it. The sentiments we exhibit, whether

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Fighting for the freedom of one’s people is not the only necessity. As long as the fight goes on you must enlighten not only

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Identity is forbidden to me, I know. But I’m going to take a chance because I trust in my future cowardice, and it will be

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And what’s strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea

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My friend, to love people as they are is impossible. And yet one must. And therefore do good to them, clenching your feelings,...

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Human nature shudders, and turns pale at its presence, and flies from it as from a den of lions, a nest of scorpions, or an

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The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea

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In the remote depths, in the most inward parts, in the hidden recesses of happiness, there dwells also the anxious dread

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How can you tell a man there’s nothing to do? I can’t imagine a situation in which there could ever be nothing to do! Do it

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Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but

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The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man is, the

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Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating — people who know absolutely everything, and people who

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Man is an animal, for the most part a creative one, prone to striving for a goal consciously and to engaging in the arts

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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once,...

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Men do not like to admit themselves wrong. It is absurd, but it is so. Men, trivial, wretched creatures, proved by history

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No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.

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