I Quotes
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“If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.”
“If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.”
“If man had not been his own classifier, he would never have thought of founding a separate order for his own reception.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)
“If man had written the Gospels - say Shakespeare or Eugene O'Neill - the story of the gospel would have been drastically different. They would have placed the prince in halls and palaces and had him walking among the great. They would have had him surrounded by the important and significant of the time. Potentates and kings would have been His companions. But how sweetly common was the real God-man; though He had inhabited all eternity, He had come down and was subject to the rising and the setting of the sun.”
“If man has been kicked up out of that which is only impersonal by chance , then those things that make him man-hope of purpose and significance, love, motions of morality and rationality, beauty and verbal communication-are ultimately unfulfillable and thus meaningless.”
“If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.”
“If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology.”
Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.”
“If man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. If, for instance, Siddhartha had not learned to fast, he would have had to seek some kind of work today, either with you, or elsewhere, for hunger would have driven him. But as it is, Siddhartha can wait calmly. He is not impatient, he is not in need, he can ward off hunger for a long time and laugh at it. Therefore, fasting is useful, sir.”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.”
“If "man" invented societies and cities, why are all societies and cities so repressive of "man"?...
...Sometimes people think there are some evil individual "men" somewhere who are exploiting them....These "men" are supposed to be enemies of "man". It gets confusing, but nobody seems to notice the confusion....
... When societies and cultures and cities are seen not as inventions of "man" but as higher organisms than biological man, the phenomena of war and genocide and all the other forms of human exploitation become more intelligible. "Mankind" has never been interested in getting itself killed. But the superorganism, the Giant, who is a pattern of values superimposed on top of biological human bodies, doesn't mind losing a few bodies to protect his greater interests....
...So here was this Giant, this nameless, faceless system reaching for him, ready to devour him and digest him. It would use his energy to grow stronger and stronger throughout his life while he grew older and weaker until, when he was no longer of much use, it would excrete him and find another younger person full of energy to take his place and do the same thing all over again.”
Source: Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
“If man is able to live healthily as a vegetarian but chooses not to be one, then man is guilty of eating meat!”
“If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.”
Source: Addresses
“If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?”
“If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good reason why mankind should be perceived as special. Human life is cheapened. We can see this in many of the major issues being debated in our society today.”
“If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?”
“If man is not special, if he's not deeply different from any other thing, then there's no good reason not to treat him just like any other thing when it's convenient for us to do so.”
“If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.”
“If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.”
Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
“If man is to realize and maximize his true potential, a relationship with
God is not an option.”
Source: Understanding Your Potential - Discovering the Hidden You
“If man is to remain the creator and master of his world then, Stirner maintains, ... all that has been accepted, that has taken on the secure guise of the 'fact', must be return to a state of flux, or be rejected.”
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky
“If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.”
“If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.”
“If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.”
Source: Enquiries Into Religion and Culture (The Works of Christopher Dawson)
“If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?”
Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works
“If man made it, don't eat it.”
“If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.”
“If man makes it, I don't eat it!”
“If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go mad, or succumb to a numbing sense of futility. Why, he might ask himself, should he bother to write a great symphony, or strive to make a living, or even to love another, when he is no more than a momentary microbe on a dust mote whirling through the unimaginable immensity of space?”
“If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a hindrance to his self-knowledge.”
“If man really is fashioned, more than anything else, in the image of God, then clearly it follows that there is nothing on earth so near to God as a human being. The conclusion is inescapable, that to be in the presence of even the meanest, lowest, most repulsive specimen of humanity of the world is still to be closer to God than when looking up into a starry sky or at a beautiful sunset. Certainly that is why there is nothing in the new testament about beautiful sunsets.- Mike Mason -Author of "The Mystery of Marriage”
“If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“If Man retained faith in God, he might also retain faith in Man.”
“If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.”
“If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain of this: for all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean- 'spaceship.'”
“If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.”
“If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing.”
“If man walks in nature's midst, then he is nature's guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest.”
“If man wants to obtain knowledge of the greatness and happiness of these worlds, then is nothing else possible than that he also will be introduced to the dangerous, with the fearfulness that they contain. One is not possible without the other.”
“If man was a logical creature: his last suspect—namely, his mouth—was going to be the first; whenever he thinks that someone, or, something is smelly.”
Source: Divided & Conquered
“If man was an artist, then colors would run together.”
“If man was created in God's likeness, then God must have just got rid of the trash when he threw man down onto Earth. After all, we do the same thing, don't we?
Somehow, I don't think God is like man at all, do you?”
“If man was devolving into a psychotic pit of rotted plasma, [Karl] Rove would be the Alpha of such grime.”
“If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.”
Source: Pensées
“If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.”
Source: The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)
“If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.”
Source: The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)
“If man were immortal, do you realize what his meat bills would be?”
Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose
“If man were infinitely malleable, there would have been nor revolutions; there would have been no change because a culture would have succeeded in making man submit to its patterns without resistance. But man, being only relatively malleable, has always reacted with protest against conditions which made the disequilibrium between the social order and his human needs too drastic or unbearable. The attempt to reduce this disequilibrium and the need to establish a more acceptable and desirable solution is at the very core of the dynamism of the evolution of man in history. Man's protest arose not only because of material suffering; specifically human needs...are an equally strong motivation for revolution and the dynamics of change.”
Source: The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology
“If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.”