M Quotes
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“Man is essentially 'finite freedom'; freedom not in the sense of indeterminacy but in the sense of being able to determine himself through decisions in the center of his being. Man, as finite freedom, is free within the contingencies of his finitude. But within these limits he is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become, to fulfill his destiny.”
Source: The Courage To Be
“Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.”
“Man is essentially the imitative animal. His whole educabilityand in fact the whole history of civilization depend on this trait, which his strong tendencies to rivalry, jealousy, and acquisitiveness reinforce.”
“Man is even as steel, the essence of which is hidden: through admonition and explanation, good counsel and education, that essence will be brought to light. If, however, he be allowed to remain in his original condition, the corrosion of lusts and appetites will effectively destroy him.”
“Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine; and every religion is the answer from the Universal Spirit to the seeking spirits of men that came forth from Him.”
“Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.”
Source: Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action
“Man is everywhere dangerously unaware of himself. We really know nothing about the nature of man, and unless we hurry to get to know ourselves we are in dangerous trouble.”
“Man is everywhere still in chains.”
Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism
“Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred.”
“Man is evolving...but it's difficult to see his progress with a Western perception of time. The Hindus think of time in much larger segments. They watch the hour hand of the clock while we in the West are preoccupied with the second hand.”
“Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.”
“Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so.”
Source: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
“Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.”
“Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.”
Source: The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Jefferson Bible,
“Man is finite, man's reason lives in preliminary concerns; but man is also aware of his potential infinity, and this awareness appears as his ultimate concern, as faith. If reason is grasped by an ultimate concern, it is driven beyond itself; but it does not cease to be reason, finite reason. The ecstatic experience of an ultimate concern does not destroy the structure of reason. Ecstasy is fulfilled, not denied, rationality.”
Source: Dynamics of Faith
“Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.”
“Man is flawed; universe is imperfect; the functioning of the cosmos is defective! Everything seems to be severely punished by the imperfection! May be the real challenge of men is to correct all these flaws! It is possible to think that God is an evolutionary perfectionist! He creates things as unimportant and faulty; then let them all alone and fateless to evolve to perfection!”
“Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.”
Source: Further fables for our time
“Man is folly itself. Let this one fact only be considered: those same Greeks believed that they alone of the nations possessed the thing they called philosophia — the love of the subtleties of wisdom; and even while they were thus believing, the Vedic Hymns had been sung; the Brahmin had codified the intricate activities of the Attributes Sut, Raj, and Tum; and the Boodh had denied that Brahma, Vishnu, and Mahadeva were emanations of the Spirit of God. Such is the inborn vanity and shallowness of man.”
Source: Shapes in the Fire
“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”
“Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”
Source: Notes from the Underground
“Man is forever the same; the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself, you have for others, for nature, for the invisible ... which you call God.”
“Man is forming thousands of ridiculous relations between himself and God.”
“man is free and there is no human nature in which I can place my trust.”
Source: Existentialism is a Humanism
“Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”
“Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.”
“Man is free the moment he wants to be.”
“Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.”
“Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it; and the greater power he ascribes to faith, the more he deprives himself of that power which God has given to him when He endowed him with the gift of reason.”
“Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.”
Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete
“man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity”
Source: Systematic Theology
“Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]”
Source: The Story of My Life
“Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.”
Source: The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
“Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier." He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.”
“Man is full of energy; it is up to him how to use it! You can use your energy to do harm to people or to produce art and science; or you can use it for chattering or for deceiving people! By looking at the human history, we can easily say that man is guilty of wasting his energy mostly for stupid things!”
“Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.”
Source: Existentialism
“Man is fully responsible for his nature, choices and lifestyle.”
“MAN IS FUNDAMENTALLY AN ANIMAL. Animals, as distinct from man, are not machine-like, not sadistic; their societies, within the same species, are incomparably more peaceful than those of man. The basic question, then is: What has made the animal, man, degenerate into a machine?”
“Man is funny
Despite of having five + senses and infinite intelligence
He says he is helpless at the hands of destiny
Time for mutiny, change your fortune,
with within get in tune!
Let your destiny be revolutionzed... Get #Mickeymized!”
“Man is gifted with reason; he is life being aware of itself he has awareness of himself, of his fellow man, of his past, and of the possibilities of his future. This awareness of himself as a separate entity, the awareness of his own short life span, of the fact that without his will he is born and against his will he dies, that he will die before those whom he loves, or they before him, the awareness of his aloneness and separateness, of his helplessness before the forces of nature and of society, all this makes his separate, disunited existence an unbearable prison. He would become insane could he not liberate himself from this prison and reach out, unite himself in some form or other with men, with the world outside.”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“Man is God by his faculty for thought.”
“Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.”
Source: Notebooks
“Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.”
Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
“Man is greater than the gods.”
Source: Jnana Yoga (Part II): The Yoga of Knowledge (Art of Living)
“Man is greed's tool within his own realm.”
“Man is guaranteed only those rights which he can defend.”
“Man is guided by the stomach. He walks and the stomach goes first and the head afterwards. Have you not seen that? It will take ages for the head to go first.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act.”
“Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well”
“Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think... This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.”