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Carl Jung, fully Carl Gustav Jung
The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not?... Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interest on futilities.
Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy.
Beauty | Character | Degeneracy | Destiny | Evil | Freedom | Good | Man | Ugly | Beauty |
The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions - decisions based on expediency, the fashionable ideas of the moment - are right on top of the pile, ready to be displayed in bright after-dinner conversation. But the ideas that make up a man's philosophy of life are somewhere way down below.
Character | Conversation | Ideas | Life | Life | Man | Mind | Philosophy | Right |
Juvenal, fully Decimus Junius Juvenalis NULL
No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.
Søren Kierkegaard, fully Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
No love and no expression of love may, in the merely human and worldly sense, be deprived of a relationship to God. Love is a passionate emotion, but in this emotion, even before he enters into a relation with the object of his love, the man just first enter into a relationship with God, and thereby realize the claim that love is the fulfillment of the law.
Character | Fulfillment | God | Law | Love | Man | Object | Relationship | Sense |
Joseph Klausner, fully Joseph Gedaliah Klausner
A man becomes great not only because of his virtues but also because of his faults.
Søren Kierkegaard, fully Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
The majority of man are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, terribly objective sometimes, but the real task is in fact to be objective towards oneself and subjective towards all others.
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
Alphonse Karr, fully Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.