“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”
Variant: When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“Man is fulfilled only when he ceases to be man.”
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
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Emil M. Cioran 531
Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995Related quotes
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Giacomo Casanova
(1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
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Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 1, Preface http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/casanova/c33m/preface2.html
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Letter 15
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
Source: Black Skin, White Masks
“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
Martin Buber
(1878–1965) German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian
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“Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.”
Charles de Gaulle
(1890–1970) eighteenth President of the French Republic
La difficulté attire l'homme de caractère, car c'est en l'étreignant qu'il se réalise lui-même.
in Mémoires de guerre.
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Fridtjof Nansen
(1861–1930) Norwegian polar explorer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
[Nansen, Fridtjof, A New Route to the North Pole, https://books.google.com/books?id=KPoLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA693, 11, August 1891, The Forum, 693–709]