M Quotes
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“Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad truth, boy, that if you sit now and think of the worst tortures that could ever be inflicted on another human being, they will already have been practiced somewhere. If there is one sound that follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.”
Source: Bloodstone
“Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.”
Source: Sometimes a Great Notion
“Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.”
“Man is certainly free, but he is responsible for this freedom before God as before men. This responsibility is inevitably moral. In order of this morality, to be free is to protect the freedom of others and their dignities.”
Source: Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity
“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”
Source: The Complete Essays
“Man is certainly the most disgusting kind of worm that has ever crawled on this stupid ugly planet.”
“Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.”
“Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.”
“Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is inevitable. The world hates Individualism. But that is not to trouble them. They are to be calm and self-centred. If a man takes their cloak, they are to give him their coat, just to show that material things are of no importance. If people abuse them, they are not to answer back. What does it signify? The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, they are not to be violent in turn. That would be to fall to the same low level. After all, even in prison, a man can be quite free. His soul can be free. His personality can be untroubled. He can be at peace. And, above all things, they are not to interfere with other people or judge them in any way. Personality is a very mysterious thing. A man cannot always be estimated by what he does. He may keep the law, and yet be worthless. He may break the law, and yet be fine. He may be bad, without ever doing anything bad. He may commit a sin against society, and yet realise through that sin his true perfection.”
Source: Der Sozialismus und die Seele des Menschen
“Man is completely out of phase with nature. Nature is woman. Man is the intruder. The man who re-attunes himself with nature is the man who de-mans himself or eliminates himself as man.”
“Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)”
Source: All the King's Men
“Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get below his animal nature, habits, customs, affections, daily life, and sometimes go away down into the heart of the man, before you know what is really in him. But when you get into the last core of these concentric rings of personality you find a sense of the infinite-a consciousness of immortality linked to something higher and better.”
“Man is condemned to be free”
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism
“Man is condemned to philosophize.”
“Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.”
Source: Tertium Organum: A Key to the Enigmas of the World
“Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. ... If he is with a business organization, the odds are great that he has sacrificed every other kind of independence in return for that dubious one known as financial.”
“Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions.”
Source: The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
“Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.”
“Man is created for the glory of God.”
Source: The Westminster Pulpit vol. III: The Preaching of G. Campbell Morgan
“Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.”
“Man is created in God's likeness, thereof, reflect God.”
“Man is created in the likeliness of his Maker.”
“Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.”
“Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?”
“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”
Source: Nature of the second sex
“Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.”
Source: On the Origin of Species
“Man is designed to be a comprehensivist .”
“Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals.”
Source: The Descent of Man
“Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.”
Source: Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life
“Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.”
“Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.”
“Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.”
Source: Lectures Upon Shakspeare
“Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.”
Source: The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...
“Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for his own well-being, or to spend his youth procuring pleasures in advance for that time of life when he will be too old to enjoy them.”
“Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a higher self whose rationale he doubts and does not understand.”
Source: The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic
“Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.”
“Man is dust.
Rue is rain.
Life is mud.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is.”
Source: Study of Man: General Education Course : Fourteen Lectures Given in Stuttgart Between 21 August and 5 September 1919
“Man is either governed by his own laws - freedom - or the laws of another - slavery. Are you willing to become slaves? Will you give up your freedom, your life and your property without a single struggle? No man has a right to rule over his fellow creatures.”
“Man is embedded in nature.”
Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.”
Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“Man is emphatically self-made.”
“Man is encompassed with a dome of incomprehensible wonders. In him and about him is that which should fill his life with majesty and sacredness. Something of sublimity and sanctity has thus flashed down from heaven into the heart of every one that lives.”
Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry
“Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.”
Source: Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)
“Man is entitled by birthright to a share of the earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence.”
“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”
Source: Pascal Pensées