M Quotes
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“Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.”
“Man is the master of his choices,”
“Man is the master of Woman" - this statement may have been a glorious fact of primitive life in the wild, but it is nothing but an obnoxious stain on psyche of the thinking humanity.”
“Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.”
“Man is the measure of all things', said the Sophist Protagora (c. 485-410 B.C.). By that he meant that the question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a person's needs.”
Source: Sophie’s World
“Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.”
“Man is the measure of all things, of things that are that they are, and of things that are not that they are not.”
“Man is the measure of all things.”
“Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.”
“Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal consciousness of the real Ego transcends a million fold the self-consciousness of the personal for false ego.”
“Man is the microcosm: I am my world.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow
“Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Behold, "There is a God," thou sayest. Thou sayest well: In that thou sayest all. To Be is more Of wonderful, than being, to have wrought, Or reigned, or rested.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow
“Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.”
“Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.”
“Man is the most divine of all the beings, for amongst all living things, Atum associates with him only - speaking to him in dreams at night, foretelling the future for him in the flight of birds, the bowels of beasts, and the whispering oak.”
Source: Corpus Hermeticum
“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.”
“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping.”
“Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.”
“Man is the most powerful creature on the planet. And we're arrogant. I mean, people own birds. It's like, there's a creature with the gift of flight. I want it. I'm going to put it in my kitchen and make it crap on old information.”
“Man is the most unpredictable specie of all creatures, the most rebellious and the most unreasonable, especially those who finds a cause in the worship of carved graven images and those who kills others and dies murdering to attain their selfish goals of the promises of sensual rewards.”
“Man is the namer; by this we recognize that through him pure language speaks. All nature, insofar as it communicates itself, communicates itself in language, and so finally in man. Hence, he is the lord of nature and can give names to things. Only through the linguistic being of things can he get beyond himself and attain knowledge of them-in the name. God's creation is completed when things receive their names from man, from whom in name language alone speaks.”
“Man is the nearest approach to Brahman.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.”
Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes
“Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through his passion nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.”
Source: Venus in Furs
“Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.”
“Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.”
“Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.”
Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
“Man is the only animal for whom his own stupid existence is a problem which he has to try in vain to solve.”
“Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.”
“Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.”
“Man is the only animal that can be bored.”
Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
“Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once.”
“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”
Source: The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition
“Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.”
Source: Thoughts on Death and Life
“Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.”
Source: What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings
“Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.”
“Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.”
“Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from childhood.”
“Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.”
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”
“Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.”
Source: Finishing Touches
“Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.”
“Man is the only animal that when you pat him on the head, his head swells up.”
“Man is the only animal to borrow tools.”
“Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays
“Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, who can feel evicted from paradise, the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem that he has to solve and from which he cannot escape. He cannot go back to the prehuman state of harmony with nature, and he does not know where he will arrive if he goes forward. Man's existential contradiction results in a state of constant disequilibrium. This disequilibrium distinguishes him from the animal, which lives, as it were, in harmony with nature.”
Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
“Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.”