M Quotes
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“Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.”
“Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.”
“Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.”
“Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Man is really not freeing many aspects. He is dependent on his social circumstances, but he is free in his thinking, and here is the point of origin of sculpture. For me the formation of the thought is already sculpture. The thought is sculpture.”
“Man is remembered by his deeds.”
“Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.”
“Man is rotten with perfection.”
“Man is ruled by Earth. Earth is ruled by Heaven. Heaven is ruled by the Way. The Way is ruled by itself.”
“Man is sad without a song.”
“Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?”
“Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.”
“Man is seldom judged on the basis of his good deeds. If bad in past the good in present doesn’t matter ; if bad in present the good done in past is forgotten.
That's human!!”
“Man is seldom wisely selfish”
Source: Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel
“Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.”
Source: The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand”
Source: The Da Vinci Code
“Man is sitting disconsolate on an anthill one morning. God asks him what the matter is and man replies that the soil is too swampy for the cultivation of the yams which God has directed him to grow. God tells him to bring in a blacksmith to dry the soil with his bellows. The contribution of humanity to this creation is so important. God could have made the world perfect if he had wanted. But he made it the way it is. So that there is a constant need for us to discuss and cooperate to make it more habitable, so the soil can yield, you see.”
“Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works of Nature with the astronomer, or the minutest works with the physicist. ... [K]nowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.”
“Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.”
“Man is so busy creating cosmetics for the skin, that he has not Discovered, what lies Within!”
Source: The 4th Factor
“Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.”
“Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.”
Source: Journey to the Interior of the Earth
“Man is so created that as to his internal he cannot die; for he is capable of believing in God, and thus of being conjoined to God by faith and love, and to be conjoined to God is to live to eternity.”
Source: The gospel according to Mark
“Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch.”
Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects
“Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.”
“Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.”
Source: Texts & pretexts: an anthology with commentaries
“Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.”
Source: Pascal's Pensees
“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.”
“Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
“Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.”
“Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.”
Source: The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment
“Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.”
“Man is, so to speak, an endless and infinitely varied repetition: and if we know what one man feels, we so far know what a thousand feel in the sanctuary of their being. Our feeling of general humanity is at once an aggregate of a thousand different truths, and it is also the same truth a thousand times told.”
“Man is something that is to be surpassed.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil
“Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome”
Source: Thus spake Zarathustra
“Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.”
Source: Unmodern Observations
“Man is something to be surpassed.”
“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”
Source: The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)
“Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation [which accounts for it] that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but [consists in the fact] that the relation relates itself to its own self. Man is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short it is a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two factors. So regarded, man is not yet a self.”
“Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.”
“Man is spiritual being -- a soul, in other words -- and that this soul takes on different bodies from life to life on earth to order at last to arrive at such perfect knowledge, through repeated experience, as to enable one to assume a body fit to be the dwelling-place of a Mahatma or perfected soul. Then, they say, that particular soul becomes a spiritual helper to mankind.”
“Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.”
“Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.”
Source: The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom
“Man is still at the learning stage, and mankind is so arrogant to think that he's the highest form of evolution on earth. There's so much of the brain that we still don't use, and that's all I ever try to do - go to the next level”
“Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material things. They have increased the standards of living and comfort. They have eliminated infinite drudgery. They have increased leisure. But that gives more time for devilment. The work of science has eliminated much disease and suffering. It has increased the length of life. That, together with increase in productivity, has resulted in vastly increased populations. Also it increased the number of people engaged in devilment.”
“Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.”
“Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.”
Source: The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Man is subject to all kinds of hardships and misfortunes.”
“Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.”
Source: The Spectator, no. 1-314
“Man is subject to the passing of time. He comes into existence, grows, becomes old, and passes away. His time is scarce. He must economize it as he economizes other scarce factors. The economization of time has a peculiar character because of the uniqueness and irreversibility of the temporal order.”