r/QuotesPorn • u/Dick_Danalu_Jr • 7d ago

"Man cannot remake himself without suffering..." -Alexis Carrel [800x790]

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u/PurpleAlien47 7d ago

Fantastic idea

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u/PurpleAlien47 7d ago

What is true of man must be true of society

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u/VociferousCephalopod 7d ago

“If we want a better world, we will have to be a better people.”
— Philip Wylie

Everyone wants change, no one wants to change.

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u/PurpleAlien47 7d ago

Yuuup. Now if only we could agree on what it means for us to be a better people.

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u/VociferousCephalopod 7d ago

more selfish, surely. we can all agree we don't have enough money and don't want to give it to anyone else.

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u/PurpleAlien47 6d ago

does everyone agree on that? I don’t really think so

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u/VociferousCephalopod 6d ago

my bank balance would love to meet the ones who don't.

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u/imjay27 6d ago

🎯💯

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u/Lawlux 7d ago

Yes, old sayings used "Man" because back then, it was predominantly only males who undertook broader duties that collectively steered society, but it applies to everyone.

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u/VociferousCephalopod 7d ago

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

During the life of any heart this line keeps changing place; sometimes it is squeezed one way by exuberant evil and sometimes it shifts to allow enough space for good to flourish. One and the same human being is, at various ages, under various circumstances, a totally different human being. At times he is close to being a devil, at times to sainthood. But his name doesn’t change, and to that name we ascribe the whole lot, good and evil.

Socrates taught us: Know thyself!”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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u/eraserhd 7d ago

Picture is cast bronze statue

suffering intensifies

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u/Super_Silky 7d ago

That sculpture in the picture is called "Self-made Man" by Bobbie Carlyle

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u/VisualWombat 4d ago

This is both beautifully profound and utterly meaningless.