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quotes by topic Man

" Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

God , Man , Reason

" Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Will , Man , Nature

" God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

God , Man , Bible

" Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Man

" The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. "

George Bernard Shaw

Man , Mistake , Sound , Poverty

" The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. "

George Bernard Shaw

Man , Fact

" When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any. "

George Bernard Shaw

Man , Money

" When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. "

George Bernard Shaw

Man , Murder

" When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. "

George Bernard Shaw

Man , Duty

" Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. "

George Bernard Shaw

Man , World , Desire

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