Someday I will understand Auschwitz. This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz. What I might have set down with more accuracy would have been: Someday I will write about Sophie's life and death, and thereby help demonstrate how absolute evil is never extinguished from the world. Auschwitz itself remains inexplicable. The most profound statement yet made about Auschwitz was not a statement at all, but a response.

The query: "At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?"

And the answer: "Where was man?

William Styron

Mots clés man humanity evil god understanding auschwitz



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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Mots clés man character



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Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mots clés man god gods godliness fool deity divinity divine disguise godlike divinity-within higher-self godly-reference godly deities divine-self



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As a child, I was afraid of the dark and the monsters on the outside.
As a man, I run away from the light, afraid to show the monsters within.

Anthony Liccione

Mots clés man dark light child afraid



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Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.



Mots clés growing-up man youth childhood growing-older child adult painted-shell



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And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mots clés man



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The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.

William Blake

Mots clés man woman



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Who can give a man this, his own name?

George MacDonald

Mots clés man identity names masculinity



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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

Marcus Aurelius

Mots clés man strength-of-character



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If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from exuberance when things are going well to deep depression when they go wrong. Booms and busts are products, at root, of our emotional volatility.

Niall Ferguson

Mots clés money man humanity finance



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