André Malraux - Man Quotes

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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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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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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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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.

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Humanism does not consist in saying: 'No animal could have done what I have done,' but in declaring: 'We have refused what the beast within us willed to do, and we seek to reclaim man wherever we find that which crushes him.'

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The art museum is one of the places that give us the highest idea of man.

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The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed into piety. Now, the same conquest of the outside world that brought in our modern individualism, so different from that of the Renaissance, is by way of relativizing the individual. It is plain to see that man's faculty of transformation, which began by a remaking of the natural world, has ended by calling man himself into question.

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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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The extermination camps, in endeavoring to turn man into a beast, intimated that it is not life alone which makes him man.

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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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In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

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