So far as we have any information about man, we know that he has always and everywhere been under the influence of dominating ideas. Any one who alleges that he is not can immediately be suspected of having exchanged a known form of belief for a variant which is less known both to himself and to others.
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Man, as we realize if we reflect for a moment, never perceives anything fully or comprehends anything completely.
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of creation.
We have learned, for example, that the more virtuous a man is the more severe is his super-ego, and that he blames himself for misfortunes for which he is clearly not responsible.
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.
With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair.
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Such is the first principle of existentialism.
Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust toward existence.
Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. You shall see who is the stronger, a gentle girl who doesn’t eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.
