“it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.”

— Jean Paul Sartre

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French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, sc… 1905–1980

Louis Nizer book My Life in Court

My Life in Court (1961), p. 115.

“What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.”

Norman Cousins (1915–1990) American journalist

Quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter.

“Nothing could tempt me to do this man injustice, though I could hardly add to the injury he has done himself.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

Interview with the Chicago Times, Feb. 14, 1881.

“He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.”

James Beattie (1735–1803) Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher

The Hermit

“A man must comport himself as a man. He must fight always preferably and soundly with the odds in his favor but on necessity against any sort of odds and with no thought of the outcome. He should follow his tribal laws and customs insofar as he can and accept the tribal discipline when he cannot. But it is never a reproach that he has kept a child's heart, a child's honesty and a child's freshness and nobility.”

Ernest Hemingway book True at First Light

Source: True at First Light (1999), Ch. 1

“He's a curious man; a shrug of the shoulders and a wink and that's him. He's never thought it odd that his daughter cross-dresses for a living and sells second-hand purses on the side. But then, he's never thought it odd that his daughter was born with webbed feet.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion (1987), p.61

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

No Exit (1944)
Variant: A man is what he wills himself to be.
Source: Existentialism and Human Emotions

“You hate Jesus because someone from the North Country said He was the Son of God. But you hate one another because each of you deems himself too great to be the brother of the next man.”

Khalil Gibran book Jesus, The Son of Man

Mary Magdalen (Thirty years later): On the Resurrection of the Spirit
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)

“Everyone lets the present moment slip by, and then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this. But while grasping this firmly, one must pile experience upon experience. Once a man has come to this understanding he will be a different person from that point on, though he may not always bear his truth in mind.”

Rati Tsiteladze (1987) Georgian Filmmaker

As Quoted in The Gerorgian Times in 2008 http://www.geotimes.ge/index.php?m=home&newsid=12354.eng

“There was only one thing the perfume could not do. It could not turn him into a person who could love and be loved like everyone else. So, to hell with it he thought. To hell with the world. With the perfume. With himself”

Patrick Süskind (1949) German writer and screenwriter

Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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