Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
Andre Malraux
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
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Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
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What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.
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Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets; for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such revelations.
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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
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Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.
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The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.
An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ; it was that Leviathan, the Nation.
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