M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Man is naturally more disposed to beneficent than selfish actions. This we learn even from the history of savages. The domestic virtues have something in them so inviting and genial, and the public virtues of the citizen something so grand and inspiring, that even he who is barely uncorrupted, is seldom able to resist their charm.”
“Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.”
“Man is nature as much as the trees.”
“Man is nature's sole mistake.”
“Man is neither angel nor beast.”
“Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.”
“Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.”
“Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone.”
“Man is neither totally an individual being, nor totally a social animal. He needs aloneness just as much as he needs togetherness. He needs cleanings just as much as he adds information, makes new connections, new people. We call that mind’s cleanliness, meditation.”
“Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.”
Source: Feather Fall: An Anthology
“Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?”
“Man is never free to be himself; the power of the one limits the freedom of the other.”
Source: Encounter
“Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.”
Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)
“Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“Man is never out of range of surprises!”
“Man is never perfect nor contented.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)
“Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.”
“Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.”
Source: John Calvin: Selections from His Writings
“Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.”
“Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour.
[Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis
Cautum est in horas.]”
“Man is no form no mighty molecule no just
idea alone — all that Thing —
I feel man tender radiance at Heart between
breast and belly, that physical place
where the Self urges — delicate sensation”
Source: Wait Till I'm Dead: Uncollected Poems
“Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.”
Source: Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings
“Man is no longer attracted at all by the good. He finds himself in a state of total indifference with regard to good & evil... the intervention of an external element is necessary. Obedience to the law is what defines the good, for example. "It is good because the law requires of it of me" instead of "The law requires it of me because it is good”
“Man is no man, but a wolf”
Source: Plautus: The Comedies
“Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.”
“Man is no star, but a quick coal
Of mortal fire:
Who blows it not, nor doth control
A faint desire,”
Source: The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert
“Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission.”
“Man is not a machine, ... although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus. .... No other organism, and certainly no computer, can be made to confront genuine human problems in human terms. ... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the future, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns.”
“man is not a man, until he stands for somthing good”
“Man is not a mind that thinks, but a being who knows other beings as true, who loves them as good and who enjoys them as beautiful. For all that which is, down to the humblest form of existence, exhibits the inseparable privileges of being, which are truth, goodness, and beauty.”
“Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.”
Source: Tunnel in the Sky
“Man is not a ship in harbour; Earth is not a ship in harbour; even Universe is not a ship in harbour! No safe harbour for anything exists!”
“Man is not above nature, but in nature.”
Source: The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny
“Man is not an aquatic animal, but from the time we stand in youthful wonder beside a Spring brook till we sit in old age and watch the endless roll of the sea, we feel a strong kinship with the waters of this world.”
Source: An American year: country life and landscapes through the seasons
“Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day”
Source: The Eighth Day: A Novel
“Man is not an isolated island, but we live with the false notion of being an island. We are part of the whole. We are not apart from the whole. We belong to the continent, and the continent is infinite.
The ego is an island,. but your being is not an island. To follow the dictates of the ego is to make a mess of your life, because it takes
you away from the unity of existence.
It is trying to create a separate entity, it is trying to be separate from the unity of existence. This is doomed to fail from the beginning, because it is not in accord with the law of existence. How can the three be separate from the earth? How can the leaf be separate from the tree?
The moment the tree is separate from the earth it is dead. Life is being with the tree. Life is part of the tree.
The larger your ego is, the more it suffocates our being, our life source. The moment you drop the ego, you are free. You are free
from all imprisonments. Then the whole universe belongs to you.
Then all the stars, rivers and mountains are part of you. To be in this unity is to be in joy.”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The world we live in is made of an immensely complex and mysterious tissue about which we know very little and which we must treat with utmost humility.”
“Man is not an organism; he is an intelligence served by organs.”
“Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God.”
Source: The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi
“Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.”
“Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)
“Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise men, was the ideal of the ancients). He is nothing else than the narrow and perilous bridge between nature and spirit. His innermost destiny drives him on to the spirit and to God. His innermost longing draws him back to nature, the mother. Between the two forces his life hangs tremulous and irresolute.”
Source: Steppenwolf
“Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.”
“Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.”
Source: PATTERNS OF CULTURE
“Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.”
“Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom he is defiled by. Is there anything anyone can do, to become righteous, anyway? God made us impure. If he had a problem with that, He would have made us gods, instead.”
“Man is not distinguished from [the animals] by a special kind of soul, or by any peculiar and exclusive psychic function, but only by a higher degree of psychic activity, a superior stage of development.”
Source: the riddle of the universe
“Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)”
Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.”
Source: On Love
“Man is not free unless government is limited.”