M Quotes
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“man is not truly one, but two”
“Man is not valuable because he loves God. Man is valuable because God loves him.”
“Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.”
“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides. –André Malraux”
“Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.”
“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
“Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.”
Source: Killosophy
“Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has a will of his own, he chooses between incompatible ends.”
Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method
“Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.”
“Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. That is the first principle of existentialism.”
Source: Existentialism is a Humanism
“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”
Source: The Philosophy of Existentialism: Selected Essays
“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.”
“Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.”
“Man is nothing, absolutely nothing till he achieves physical immortality. God should be prosecuted on the charges of making man mortal!”
“Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure.”
Source: The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which Have Been Already Published: with a Select Collection of Letters... Also, Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, Never Before Printed; Prepared by Himself for the Press; to which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life, Compiled from His Orignial Papers and Letters
“Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him" and "you dishonour God by denying election. You plainly make salvation depend, not on God's 'free grace' but on Man's 'free will.'”
“Man is now a new animal, a new and different animal; he can jump a hundred miles, see through brick walls, bombard atoms, analyse the stars, set about his business with the strength of a million horses. And so forth and so on. Yes. Yes. But all the same he goes on behaving like the weak little needy ape he used to be. He grabs, snarls, quarrels, fears, stampedes, and plays in his immense powder magazine until he seems likely to blow up the whole damned show.”
Source: The Holy Terror
“Man is now able to fly through the air like a bird, he is able to swim under the sea like a fish, he is able burrow beneath the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.”
“Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor!”
“Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe.”
“Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
“Man is of much value beyond measure.”
“Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.”
“Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.”
“Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity. Cause all social life to vanish, and moral life would vanish at the same time, having no object to cling to.”
Source: The Division of Labor in Society
“Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows none of this.
Thus all our dignity consists in thought. It is on thought that we must depend for our recovery, not on space and time, which we could never fill. Let us then strive to think well; that is the basic principle of morality.”
Source: Pensées
“Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows none of this.
Thus all our dignity consists in thought. It is on thought that we must depend for our recovery, not on space and time, which we could never fill. Let us then strive to think well; that is the basic principles of morality.”
Source: Pensées
“Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him. but even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows none of this.”
Source: Human Happiness
“Man is only great when he acts from passion.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.”
“Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.”
“Man is only truly free only among equally free men.”
“Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.”
“Man is originally characterized by his "search for meaning" rather than his "search for himself." The more he forgets himself—giving himself to a cause or another person—the more human he is. And the more he is immersed and absorbed in something or someone other than himself the more he really becomes himself.”
Source: Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning
“Man is part of nature. We were born into it, just like every other creature. Man has the power to protect nature.”
Source: The Illuminated Maiden: The Moksa Trilogy Book I
“Man is part of the mystery.”
“Man is part of the mystery he wishes to understand.”
“Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.”
“Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.”
Source: Tragic Sense of Life
“Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic at all, is pathetic because she has no one to look after, not because there is no one to look after her. Bear in mind that the conventional spinster keeps a canaary as a substitute for a husband.”
Source: I Pose
“Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.”
Source: The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical
“Man is precisely what the Bible says he is. Human nature is behaving exactly as the Bible said it would. The course of human events is flowing just as Christ predicted.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures
“Man is primarily a delusional and a deceitful species. He fabricates, alters, invents, and puts forth as fact what is frequently applied only to fiction.”
“Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.”
Source: Iqbal centenary papers
“Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.”
“Man is programmed to find the programmer.”
“Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.”