M Quotes
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“Man is helpless and exposed to numerous misfortunes. He is indigent, and his needs are numerous. He is weak, and the burden of life is most heavy. If he does not rely on the Omnipotent One of Glory, place his trust in Him and confidently submit to Him, his conscience will always be troubled. Fruitless torments, pains and regrets will suffocate him and intoxicate him, or turn him into a beast.”
“Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher: Printed from the Text
“Man is his own star, and the soul that can, render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate: nothing to him falls early or too late.
Our acts are angels are, for good or ill: our fatal shadows that walk by us still.”
Source: The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher
“Man is his own worst enemy.”
“Man is his own worst enemy.
[Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]”
“Man is homo religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a faith for living.”
Source: Protestant, Catholic, Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology
“Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry”
“Man is hypocrite! He says that he loves flowers but he kills them for his own simple interests and for his own joy! Man is hypocrite!”
“Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.”
“Man is ill because he is never still.”
“Man is immortal till his work is done.”
Source: Ethandune and Other Poems
“Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms”
Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany
“Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.”
“Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.”
Source: Thoughts
“Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes. He balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out, between nothingness and meaningfulness. And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats.”
“Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.”
Source: The Art of Life
“Man is in love and loves
what vanishes,
What more is there to say?”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition
“Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life”
“Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.”
Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose
“Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("étant vide par essence", Fr.), he is trying to fill (or take up, - "remplir", Fr.) his life; the latter reason play a more considerable role than we ordinarily think. What we take for vainglory, ambition, love of power and riches (or wealth), is often, indeed, a need to mask this emptiness, a need to let one's hair down (or to live it up), to put oneself on a false scent or trail. (de se donner le change", Fr.)”
“Man is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.”
“Man is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much in the human eye as in its own fragile petals and in the splendor of the heavens as much in the imagination that kindles at the touch of their glory as in the shining of countless worlds.”
“Man is incurably curious.”
“Man is indeed lost, but that does not mean that he is nothing. We must resist humanism, but to make a man a zero is not the right way to resist it ... [The] Christian position is that man is made in the image of God and even though he is now a sinner, he can do things that are tremendous - he can influence history for this life and the life to come, for himself and for others...From the biblical viewpoint, man is lost, but great.”
“Man is indeed the Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma); it is possible for infinite divinity to arise within. The moment he has a desire, he becomes a human! Otherwise, he can acquire whatever he wants, but he is unable to do so because of impediments (antray).”
“Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.”
“Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.”
Source: the female eunuch
“Man is just a memory. You understand things around you by the help of the knowledge that was put in you. You perhaps need the artist to explain his modern art, but you don't need anybody's help to understand a flower. You can deal with anything, you can do anything if you do not waste your energy trying to achieve imaginary goals.”
“Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Man is known to be a selfish, as well as a social being.”
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.”
Source: Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth”
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
“Man is less interested in marriage, very much less interested. In fact not interested at all. If he agrees, he agrees only reluctantly - because marriage means responsibility. Marriage means bondage, marriage means now you are imprisoned. Now you are no more free to move with other women. For a man, marriage looks like a prison. For a woman, marriage looks like safety, security, a home. For a woman marriage means home, and for a man marriage means slavery. Total different beliefs, so they act differently. Conflicting beliefs.”
“Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Man is like a bride unto God. God is jealous when man veers away from Him.”
Source: The Prince and the Pauper
“Man is like a migratory bird that seeks a change”
“Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower instincts that bind him to the earth. The moral life, however, is the fruit he bears; in it his true nature is revealed.”
“Man is like a tree. If you stand in front of a tree and watch it incessantly, to see how it grows, and to see how much it has grown, you will see nothing at all. But tend it at all times, prune the runners and keep it free of beetles and worms, and all in good time-it will come into its growth. It is the same with man: all that is necessary is for him to overcome his obstacles, and he will thrive and grow. But it is not right to examine him hour after hour to see how much has already been added to his stature.”
Source: Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings
“Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely.”
“Man is like an onion. His potential is exposed one layer at a time until all he is, is known by all.”
Source: Maximizing Your Potential
“Man is like the foam of the sea, that floats upon the surface of the water. When the wind blows, it vanishes, as if it had never been. Thus are our lives blown away by Death.”
“Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.”
Source: The Denial of Death
“Man is lonely mainly because he has been disconnected from the Divine presence.”
“Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.”
“Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.”
Source: Novalis: Philosophical Writings
“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.”
“Man is made by his Maker to fulfil His mission for His good pleasure for his generations.”
“Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.”
“Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason without error. In reasoning, therefore, from appearances which are particular, care must be taken how we generalize; we should be cautious not to attribute to nature, laws which may perhaps be only of our own invention.”
Source: Theory of the earth; or an investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land upon the globe. (From. the Trans., Roy. soc. of Edinb.).