M Quotes
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“Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.”
“Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the victim of this degradation. Not only is the material environment becoming a permanent menace - pollution and refuse, new illness and absolute destructive capacity - but the human framework is no longer under man's control, thus creating an environment for tomorrow which may well be intolerable. This is a wide-ranging social problem which concerns the entire human family.”
“Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.”
Source: The Revolt of the Angels
“Man is symbolic to the sun. The sun is dealing with a ball of fire and didn't go out yet. Me being symbolic to the sun, that's what keeps me going, that's like my hunger. That's like my fury, my self esteem. That's the elements within me that keep my body motionable. The fire is self esteem. Inner strength.”
“Man is taking over the forests and polluting the oceans, the animal species are threatened. I try to contribute as much as I can. We're really messing up our environment. I try to get people more aware of what's going on so that they can, even in a local way, try to prevent pollution to their lakes and rivers and prevent nuclear dumping in the oceans - it's bad enough that they're doing it in residential areas, but putting it in the ocean! Eventually it's going to pollute our food resources and, if the ocean dies, we're gone.”
“Man is that guy ripped. I mean, I've got the washboard stomach, too. It's just that mine has about two months of laundry on top of it.”
“Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason and the other unique characteristics of the human being is based upon his consciousness of himself.”
Source: Man's Search for Himself
“Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.”
“Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back - in a book.”
Source: Enjoyment of Literature
“Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment!”
“Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Man is the artificer of his own happiness.”
“Man is the beast he knows not.”
“Man is the being who has built controllers for every stubborn element, but he has not been able to build one for his Ego.”
“Man is the being who is involuntarily and voluntarily busy with himself and his surroundings, between two broadcasting stations of good and evil, until one or the other ultimately prevails.”
“Man is the being who needs a social life in order to secure mutual well-being. This has brought him much comfort. If man can generate this social life worldwide, it will be much better.”
“Man is the being who, from cradle to grave has to abide by either his man-made laws or heavenly law.”
“Man is the being whose project it is to be God.”
“Man is the being, among whom only a small minority of the elite ones, find the Greatness of Glorious God, from the study of things and therefrom acquire perfect faith. But the same tool has become the means of deviation for the rest of them.”
“Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God.”
Source: Complete Works
“Man is the candle light and a woman is the moonlight. They live far away but can grow together during lonesome nights.”
“Man is the carrier of God’s image”
“Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.”
“Man is the centrality of God’s purpose on earth”
“Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.”
“Man is the Child of his Environment”
“Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.”
Source: Works
“Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.”
“Man is the creature of circumstances.”
Source: Report of the Discussion: Between Robert Owen, Esq., and the Rev. Wm. Legg, B.A., which Took Place in the Town Hall, Reading, March 5 & 6, 1839, on Mr. Owen's New Views of Society
“Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past: The Sweet Cheat Gone
“Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other time on Earth. And when he invented Hell...lo, Hell was his Heaven on Earth"; he could put up with suffering now, by contemplating the eternal punishment of his oppressors in the other world.”
“Man is the cruelest animal.”
Source: Thus spake Zarathustra
“Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.”
“Man is the end game of humanity.”
“Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.”
Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Man is the epitome of all things and all knowledge is in him.”
Source: Complete Works
“Man is the expression
of God, and God is the reality of man.
Real man and God are inseparable.
"This Atman is not to be realized by the intellect, nor by words, nor by hearing from many sources; but by him by whom this Atman is beloved, by him alone is the Atman realized."
The thing necessary for us is to feel intense love in our hearts for this Atman, or God; otherwise He is not attainable. There is no other way that man can reach unto God, except through love — love always unites. This love for God comes unto those blessed beings who are pure in heart, from whom all attachment for unreal things, all selfish desires have vanished. This purity of heart and love for God are the sum and substance of all religious teachings”
Source: Vedanta In Practice
“Man is the first product of evolution to be capable of controlling evolutionary destiny.'" Endowed as he is with reasoning powers, he must independently decide up on his own behavior, without the compelling guidance by instinct. Supplied with mind, he is expected to cooperate consciously with nature in her further evolutionary program. Unfortunately humanity has arrantly failed to make a serious effort to promote its own further progress. Instead of using the power of the mind to understand the responsibilities which freedom from blind obedience to instinct entails, mankind has refused to listen whenever it was reminded of the requirements of the evolutionary law. It was so much easier to lend an ear to the promptings of desire, which was an unknown element up to the human stage. It must have been very soon after the acquisition of mental self-consciousness and his becoming aware of stirrings of primitive impulses, that man began to use the mind to stimulate the desires of the body. In this way he has indulged the almost negligible sexual impulse which he inherited from the animal kingdom, until it has become a desire so strong that he has difficulty to control it.
Overstimulated by this unnaturally strong desire of his own making, man has looked for arbitrary ways in which to gratify it. Although reducing actual reproduction, he has discovered ways of unreproductive sexual action. But every such act, whatever form it takes, is a misuse of sex and uses up some of the life force that should be utilized for the support and the development of higher faculties. "The record of our race progress clearly shows how our upward movement has been checked ... by that misuse.”
Source: The Coiled Serpent: A Philosophy Of Conservation And Transmutation Of Reproductive Energy
“Man is the glory of God.”
“Man is the greatest being that ever can be.”
Source: Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park
“Man is the hardest animal to kill. If he gets away he will come back to kill you.”
“Man is the head of the family, just as Christ is the Head of the Church.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“Man is the highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.”
Source: Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]
“Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.”
“Man is the individualised expression or reflection of God imaged forth and made manifest in bodily form. How is it, then, I hear it asked, that man has the limitations that he has, that he is subject to fears and forebodings, that he is liable to sin and error, that he is the victim of disease and suffering? There is but one reason. He is not living, except in rare cases here and there, in the conscious realisation of his own true Being, and hence of his own true Self.”
“Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.”
Source: The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History: In Two Volumes
“Man is the inventor of stupidity.”
“Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.”