M Quotes
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“Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.”
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Here's one who thinks he is the master of others, yet he is more enslaved than they are.”
“Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.”
“Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.”
Source: The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
“Man is born of woman.”
Source: Weyward
“Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.”
“Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“Man is born,
then man cuts wood.
Man makes shelf, and paper,
so he could write a book.
Man writes, then dies,
returns to soil—as one should.
And the tree above him grows,
from all the nourishment it took;
Until the man’s reborn,
to cut it down again.”
Source: My Last Week
“Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Man is born to dream, to be enlightened, to connect and to be fulfilled. Managers are too.”
“Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Life itself, the phenomenon of life, the gift of life, is so breath-takingly serious!”
“Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.”
“Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.”
Source: To Loot My Life Clean: The Thomas Wolfe--Maxwell Perkins Correspondence
“Man is born to trouble. Man is born for trouble. Man is born to battle trouble. Man is born for the fight, to be forged and molded--under torch and hammer and chisel--into a sharper, finer, stronger image of God.”
Source: Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
“Man is born violent but is kept in check by the people around him. If he nevertheless manages to throw off his fetters, he can count on applause, for everyone recognizes himself in him. Deeply ingrained, nay, buried dreams come true. The unlimited radiates its magic even upon crime, which, not coincidentally, is the main source of entertainment in Eumeswil. I, as an anarch, not uninterested but disinterested, can understand that. Freedom has a wide range and more facets than a diamond.”
Source: Eumeswil
“Man is born with his face turned away from God. When he truly repents, he is turned right round toward God; he leaves his old life.”
“Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.”
“Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.”
Source: The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation : Human Nature
“Man is bound to follow the exploits of his scientific and inventive mind and to admire himself for his splendid achievements. At the same time, he cannot help admitting that his genius shows an uncanny tendency to invent things that become more and more dangerous, because they represent better and better means for wholesale suicide. In view of the rapidly increasing avalanche of world population, we have already begun to seek ways and means of keeping the rising flood at bay. But nature may anticipate all our attempts by turning against man his own creative mind, and, by releasing the H-bomb or some equally catastrophic device, put an effective stop to overpopulation. In spite of our proud domination of nature we are still her victims as much as ever and have not even learnt to control our own nature, which slowly and inevitably courts disaster.”
Source: The Collected Works of C.G. Jung
“Man is bound to lie about himself”
Source: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND AND THE GRAND INQUISITOR
“Man is Brahma. But it does not stand if anybody utters that ‘I am Brahma’. It should manifest in a man then only it will be significant. And the proof lies when this blessed man manifests within the human beings as ‘Bibhu’ or ‘Paramatma’ or ‘Supreme one’. This has crossed individualism and attained Universalism.”
“Man is Brahma, so man is the eternal truth, and the universe is also the eternal truth. This universe is neither created nor will be destroyed. This is eternal.”
“Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist.”
“Man is broken down in many places because of bitterness.”
“Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.”
Source: As We Think, So We Are: James Allen's Guide to Transforming Our Lives
“Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance.”
“Man is busy in making his life dull while nature is waiting for his leisure to provide him enjoyment.”
“Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.”
“Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.”
“Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”
“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”
Source: Pensées
“Man is but his belief.”
“Man is but lost in wishes,
Of wealth, fame and riches,
This airy castle he stitches,
With logic that are his ditches.”
Source: Pt. Kanhaiya Lal Misra - My Father
“Man is but mortal: and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for an instant on the advancing mass, and then fairly turned his back and-we will not say fled; firstly, because it is an ignoble term, and, secondly, because Mr. Pickwick's figure was by no means adapted for that mode of retreat-he trotted away, at as quick a rate as his legs would convey him;.”
Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
“Man is by definition the first and primary weed under whose influence all other weeds have evolved.”
“Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.”
Source: Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
“Man is by his constitution a religious animal.”
“Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.”
“Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!”
Source: The Glass Menagerie
“Man is by nature a curious animal. You can hide the truth from him temporarily, but not for ever.”
Source: A Luminous Future
“Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.”
Source: The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace
“Man is by nature a political animal.”
“Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize the "establishment" which regulates modern society: pragmatism, materialism, mechanization, and gadgetry. Woman, on the other hand, is a practical idealist, a humanitarian with a strong sense of noblesse oblige, an altruist rather than a capitalist.”
“Man is, by nature, a slave of numbers; by nurture, a slave of slaves.”
“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.”
“Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.”
Source: Evolution and Ethics
“man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal if he achieves the full potentiality of his nature.”
“Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive.”