M Quotes
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“Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)
“Man is made in the image of his Maker.”
“Man is made of opinions,—of truth and error; and his life is a warfare like all other lives before him.... Man goes on developing error upon error till he is buried in his own belief.... It is the office of wisdom to explain the phenomena in man called disease, to show how it is made, and how it can be unmade. This is as much a science as it is to know how to decompose a piece of metal.”
“Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.”
“Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion.”
Source: The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German
“Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.”
“Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh: 3 Perspectives
“Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.”
Source: Coningsby: Or, The New Generation
“Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.”
Source: Contarini Fleming: A Romance
“Man is man.”
“Man is man because he chanced to develop intelligence instead of instinct; otherwise he would to this day have remained among the anthropoid apes. He has turned away from nature, become unnatural, as it were, disliked the earth upon which he found himself, and changed the face of it somewhat to his liking.”
Source: The Kempton-Wase Letters
“Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy.”
“Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives.”
Source: Strength to Love
“Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“Man is man, and master of his fate.”
“Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.”
Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“Man is many things, but he is not rational.”
“Man is meant for good but designed for evil.”
“Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.”
“Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of the universal and general order. And what is strange about that? All creatures are involved in the life of all others, consequently every species... all nature is in a perpetual state of flux. Every animal is more or less a human being, every mineral more or less a plant, every plant more or less an animal... There is nothing clearly defined in nature.”
“Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.”
Source: Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home, 1986-1990
“Man is morally made in God's image. What a graceful divinity!”
“Man is more ape than many of the apes.”
“Man is more attractive when left to the imagination.”
Source: The Pianist in the Dark
“Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether relatively to the larger size of his body, in comparison with that of woman, has not, I believe been fully ascertained. In woman the face is rounder; the jaws and the base of the skull smaller; the outlines of her body rounder, in parts more prominent; and her pelvis is broader than in man; but this latter character may perhaps be considered rather as a primary than a secondary sexual character. She comes to maturity at an earlier age than man.”
“Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.”
“Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.”
“Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive state of mind; Praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; Joy is the uproarious labor by which all things live? Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.”
“Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.”
“Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and the other half--the material--is fed with bad food.”
Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Pt. 1 Healing of the Self; Pt. 2 the Negatives
“Man is more powerful than matter.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.”
“Man is more social within than without.”
“Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.”
“Man is more than constitutions.”
“Man is more than his environment. It is from the innate quality of the Spirit in him, his inner storehouse, that he draws those ideas, his intuitions, which unify his perceptions of the external world instantaneously with a value which is qualitative and not quantitative, and which he embodies in the works of his culture - those achievements which belong not only to one particular time but to all times, and mark the path of his upward progress.”
“Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation.”
Source: Reconciliation: a plain statement of the gracious provision Jehovah has made to bring all men into full harmony with Himself that the obedient ones may have everlasting life on earth in contentment and complete happiness
“Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of time and place, whose perspectives and insights are invariably conditioned by his immediate circumstances.”
“Man is mortal; we are dust and to dust we shall return”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one's human life. We are not slaves. Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man than to live life devoid of self-respect.”
“Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.”
“Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling.”
“Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing natures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning.”
Source: On Being Human
“Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.”
“Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.”
“Man is naturally a religious being. His heart instinctively seeks for God whether he reverences the sacred cow or prays to the sun or moon; whether he kneels before wood and stone images, or prays in secret to his Heavenly Father, he is satisfying an inborn urge.”
Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.”
“Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety.”
Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley