M Quotes
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“Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.
By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant. Therefore, we can predict his future only within the large framework of a statistical survey referring to a whole group; the individual personality, however, remains essentially unpredictable. The basis for any predictions would be represented by biological, psychological or sociological conditions. Yet one of the main features of human existence is the capacity to rise above such conditions, to grow beyond them.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.”
Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition
“Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.”
“Man is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain.”
“Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.”
“Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.”
Source: Who Speaks for Man?
“Man is not in the world to set it right, but to see it rightly.”
Source: The Power Within
“Man is not intended to see through the eyes of another, hear through another's ears nor comprehend with another's brain. Each human creature has individual endowment, power and responsibility in the creative plan of God.”
“Man is not interesting without some imperfection”
“Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.”
“Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.”
Source: The Poems of John Dewey
“Man is not made better by being degraded.”
Source: Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States
“Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence.”
Source: Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States
“Man is not made for defeat.”
“Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.”
Source: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“Man is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated.”
“Man is not made for the Sabbath. Rather, the Sabbath is made for man”
“Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.”
“Man is not made for the state; the state is made for man. To deprive man of freedom is to relegate him to the status of a thing, rather than elevate him to the status of a person. Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.”
“Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.”
“Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit”
“Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.”
“Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.”
“Man is not meant to live alone.”
Source: The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day
“Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.”
“Man is not merely born to make money. But to fulfill his mission.”
“Man is not merely born to make money. But to fulfill is mission.”
“Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a genetic gift.... The self is malleable but elastic, snapping back to its original shape like a rubber band. Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.”
Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“Man is not mind, he is soul.”
“Man is not much beside the great birds and
beasts.”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“Man is not of man a slave -
He's money's slave.”
Source: The Hitopadesa
“Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.”
“Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.”
“Man is not only part of a field, but a part and member of his group. When people are together, as when they are at work, then the most unnatural behavior, which only appears in late stages or abnormal cases, would be to behave as separate Egos. Under normal circumstances they work in common, each a meaningfully functioning part of the whole.”
“Man is not only that which he conceives himself to be, but that which he wills himself to be...”
“Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author
“Man is not suffering by external forces as much as his own dysfunctional mind and self inflicted negative stimulus.”
“Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. Instead, therefore, of exclaiming against the ambition of kings, the exclamation should be directed against the principle of such governments; and instead of seeking to reform the individual, the wisdom of a nation should apply itself to reform the system.”
Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
“Man is not the lord of all the world's animals. He is the protector.”
“Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no other animal possesses: a jigsaw of faculties, which alone, over three thousand million years of life, made him creative. Every animal leaves traces of what he was. Man alone leaves traces of what he created.”
“Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.”
Source: Collected Works
“Man is not the source of all things, as the subjective idealists would say. Nor is he the passive observer of all things, as the objective idealists would say. The Quality which creates the world emerges as a relationship between man and his experience. He is a participant in the creation of all things. The measure of all things.”
“Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.”
“Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces , Faith and Love . Prayer is sublime.”
Source: Morals and Dogma
“Man is not to direct or to be directed anymore than a tree or a cloud or a stone
Man is not to rule or be ruled anymore than a faith or a truth or a love
Man is not to doubt or to be doubted anymore than a wave or a seed or a fire
There is no problem in living which life hasn't answered to its own need
And we cannot direct, rule, or doubt what is beyond our highest ability to understand we can only be humble before it we can only worship ourselves because we are a part of it
The eye in the leaf is watching out of our fingers
The ear in the stone is listening through our voices
The thought of the wave is thinking in our dreams
The faith of the seed is building with our deaths”
Source: Collected Poems
“Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Life and Thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi as Told in His Own Words
“Man is not truly one, but truly two.”
Source: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde