“The tragedy of a man who has found himself out.”
Act IV
What Every Woman Knows (1908)
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“Tragedy, then, is the consequence of a man's total compulsion to evaluate himself justly.”
Arthur Miller
(1915–2005) playwright from the United States
Tragedy and the Common Man (1949)
Context: I think the tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing — his sense of personal dignity. From Orestes to Hamlet, Medea to Macbeth, the underlying struggle is that of the individual attempting to gain his "rightful" position in his society.
Sometimes he is one who has been displaced from it, sometimes one who seeks to attain it for the first time, but the fateful wound from which the inevitable events spiral is the wound of indignity and its dominant force is indignation. Tragedy, then, is the consequence of a man's total compulsion to evaluate himself justly.
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(1946–2000) American ethnobotanist
Source: The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens & the I Ching
“In a man to man fight, the winner is he who has one more round within himself.”
Erwin Rommel
(1891–1944) German field marshal of World War II
Den Kampf Mann gegen Mann gewinnt bei gleichwertigen Gegnern, wer eine Patrone mehr im Lauf hat.
Source: Infanterie greift an (1937), p. 62.
“He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”
Dr. Seuss
(1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books