M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Man is an eternal sophomore.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“Man is an eternal substance by the principle of his creation. That is why resurrection is based on revealing the eternal in man.”
Source: The Resurrection of People and Eternal Life From Now On Is Our Reality!
“Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.”
Source: The Profits of Religion
“Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to deny his animal nature, to persuade himself that he is not limited by its weaknesses nor concerned in its fate. And this impulse may be harmless, when it is genuine. But what are we to say when we see the formulas of heroic self-deception made use of by unheroic self-indulgence?”
“Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.”
“Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.”
“Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.”
“Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.”
Source: The Plague
“Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.”
“Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.”
Source: Justice
“Man is an imagining being.”
“Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“Man is an imitative creature.”
Source: Wallenstein: A Dramatic Poem
“Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.”
Source: The Rosicrucian Cosmo-conception: Or, Mystic Christianity ; an Elementary Treatise Upon Man's Past Evolution, Present Constitution and Future Development
“Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two, without a possibility of its ever being otherwise.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.”
“Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.”
Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel
“Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.”
Source: True Christian religion: containing the universal theology of the New Church: now first tr. [by J. Clowes].
“Man is an organism, not a mechanism; and the mechanical pacing of his life does harm to his human responses, which naturally follow a kind of free rhythm.”
Source: In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963
“Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.”
“Man is and remains a transcendent being, that is, he is that existent to whom the silent and
uncontrollable infinity of reality is always present as mystery. This makes man totally open to this
mystery and precisely in this way he becomes conscious of himself as person and as subject.”
“Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.”
“Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best tribal, but by his perception of his oneness with each human being. In the practice of mutual aid, which we can re-trace to the earliest beginnings of evolution, we thus find the positive and undoubted origin of our ethical conceptions; and we can affirm that in the ethical progress of man, mutual support- not mutual struggle- has had the leading part.”
Source: Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
“Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.”
“Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.”
“Man is, as it were, a centre, and is attracting all the powers of the universe towards himself, and in this centre is fusing them all and again sending them off in a big current. Such a centre is the real man—the almighty, the omniscient—and he draws the whole universe towards him. Good and bad, misery and happiness, all are running towards him and clinging round him; and out of them he fashions the mighty stream of tendency called character and throws it outwards. As he has the power of drawing in anything, so has he the power of throwing it out.”
Source: Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action
“Man is as tough as a rock but delicate as a flower.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.”
Source: Writings on religion
“Man is at his best when complimented by the influence of a good woman.”
“Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.”
“Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.”
Source: Studies in the Sermon on the Mount
“Man is at his tallest when he bows.”
“Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.”
Source: The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth
“Man is aware of everything around him except himself. He runs after knowledge, but still lacks the wisdom to discover his own source.”
“Man is aware; he perceives and interprets the world around him. When he uses logic as a tool for interpretation, it becomes science; when he uses feelings for interpretation, it becomes poetry; when he takes a longer view of his observations, it becomes wisdom.”
“Man is basically an individual molecule of the God-Force.”
“Man is beginning to explore the galaxy. But how much remains undone on earth?”
Source: Gorbachev: Mandate for peace
“Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.”
Source: Kull: Exile of Atlantis
“Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.”
“Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.”
Source: The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of life and the teachings of his parents, his brothers, sisters, playmates, and later of other people FORCE HIM to acknowledge the advantages of social cooperation and accordingly to change his behavior.”
“Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts. He has to have a frame of orientation which permits him to organize a consistent picture of the world as a condition for consistent actions. He has to fight not only against the dangers of dying, starving, and being hurt, but also against another danger which is specifically human: that of becoming insane. In other words, he has to protect himself not only against the danger of losing his life but also against the danger of losing his mind.”
Source: The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology
“Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.”
Source: The Revolution of Hope
“Man is born as a seed, but most people die as seeds. They never find the right soil to grow and reach their potential. They never find a gardener. They take themselves for granted. They think that whatsoever they are that is the end, but this is not the end. It is only the beginning. But most people live in this way. They never search for their potential. They never become explorers of their inner world.
The seed can become a tree. The tree will dance in the wind, in the rain and in the sun. Birds will make their nest in it. People will rest underneath its shade. And when a tree has beauty, form, flowers and joy there is great contentment in the very being of the tree. It has fulfilled its mission from seed to become a tree.
The same experience happens to man when his seed becomes bliss. His seed has reached its potential, because bliss is the highest state of consciousness. He may live on the earth, but he is no more part of the earth. He belongs to the beyond. He may still be in the body, but he is no more the body. He is a buddha. He is pure awareness.
Now he knows his immortality. Now he knows that he was never born and he will never die. Bodies come and go, but the innermost core remains. Knowing this all fear disappears. For the first time you start experiencing life at its highest level. At the deepest core of his being, there is only joy.”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“Man is born as a seed; he can become a flower, he may not. It all depends on you, what you do with yourself; it all depends on you whether you grow or you don´t. It is your choice- and each moment the choice has to be faced; each moment you are on the crossroads.”
“Man is born as he dies, rebuking cleanliness;”
Source: Nightwood
“Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.”
“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.”
Source: The great god Brown: The fountain, The moon of the Caribbees, and other plays
“Man is born dead and he remains dead till he attains wisdom! Wisdom is the only resurrection man can obtain!”
“Man is born for deeds of kindness.”