Man (n.) is but an expression of conflict for all life is conflict and man is a part of that life.
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Man (n.) is master of everything except his own nature.
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Man (n.) is, as a potential, all that is human, which is to perhaps to say, divine.
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Man (n.) is aspirational or he is nothing. If men cease to believe that they will one day become Gods then they will surely become worms.