
“Every man has within himself the entire human condition”
Book III, Ch. 2
Essais (1595), Book III
Variant: Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
Book VI, fable 22, line 1
Fables
Homo doctus in se semper divitias habet.
“Every man has within himself the entire human condition”
Book III, Ch. 2
Essais (1595), Book III
Variant: Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
“In a man to man fight, the winner is he who has one more round within himself.”
Den Kampf Mann gegen Mann gewinnt bei gleichwertigen Gegnern, wer eine Patrone mehr im Lauf hat.
Source: Infanterie greift an (1937), p. 62.
“We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.”
“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.”
As quoted in Ethics and Citizenship (1924) by John Walter Wayland, p. 208.
Source: Introduction to the New Existentialism (1966), p. 96
Context: Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is the feeling that man is not the mere he has always taken himself for. Romanticism began as a tremendous surge of optimism about the stature of man. Its aim — like that of science — was to raise man above the muddled feelings and impulses of his everyday humanity, and to make him a god-like observer of human existence.
“The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense — he is always satisfied with himself.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VIII : From God to God