Alone Man Quotes

• All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Peace, Hipster

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• The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Strength, Loneliness, Men

  Henrik Ibsen (2016). “An Enemy of the People”, p.125, Henrik Ibsen

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• A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Being Alone, Men, Long

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.19, 谷月社

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• The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Witty, Travel, Work

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.52, Xist Publishing

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• The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Lying, Men

  Marcel Proust (2010). “In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 5: The Captive & The Fugitive”, p.515, Random House

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• A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

  Chanakya

  Life, Karma, Being Alone

  "Chanakya Neeti" by Chanakya, (p. 13), 2002.

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• The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.

  Immanuel Kant

  Destiny, Men, Race

  Immanuel Kant (1963). “Lectures on ethics”

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  A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.36, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

  Octavio Paz

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Men

  The Labyrinth of Solitude ch. 9 (1950) (translation by Lysander Kemp)

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• Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Wisdom, Witty

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• 'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Vanity, Giving

  Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.188

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• You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

  Peter Abrahams

  Men, People, Culture

  Peter Abrahams (1965). “A night of their own”

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• Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.

  Haile Selassie

  Men, Soul, Bread

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• By work alone, men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnani, Christ was a Bhakta, but the same goal was reached by both of them. Good motives, sincerity, and infinite love can conquer the world. One single soul possessed of these virtues can destroy the dark designs of millions of hypocrites and brutes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Prayer, Hypocrite, Dark

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• The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Past, Men, Knowing

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• In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Running, Men, Long

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