“Man is fulfilled only when he ceases to be man.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”
— Anthony Burgess, book A Clockwork Orange
Variant: When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
Source: A Clockwork Orange
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“Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it”
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
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“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer
Variant: No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
Mary Wollstonecraft book A Vindication of the Rights of Men
A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)
Karl Barth book The Epistle to the Romans
The Epistle to the Romans (1918; 1921)
Context: We know that God is He whom we do not know, and that our ignorance is precisely the problem and the source of our knowledge. The Epistle to the Romans is a revelation of the unknown God; God chooses to come to man, not man to God. Even after the revelation man cannot know God, for he is ever the unknown God. In manifesting himself to man he is farther away than before. <!-- p. 48
“When laws, customs, or institutions cease to be beneficial to man, they cease to be obligatory.”
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and activist
Source: Life Thoughts (1858), p. 34
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
XI, 15
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book XI
Source: The Apology, Phaedo & Crito of Plato/Golden Sayings of Epictetus/Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange
Source: A Clockwork Orange
Rumer Godden (1907–1998) English writer
Source: The Dolls' House