M Quotes
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“Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.”
Source: Freud: The Mind of the Moralist
“Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or safe.”
“Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less. Its nature is satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.”
Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.”
Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays
“Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.”
“Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.”
“Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.”
“Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.”
“Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.”
Source: Swami Vivekanand's Chicago Speech: Swami Vivekananda’s Speech At World Parliament Of Religion, Chicago
“Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is
the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.”
Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works
“Man is to man either a god or a wolf.”
“Man is to technology what the bee is to the flower. It’s man’s intervention that allows technology to expand and evolve itself and in return, technology offers man convenience, wealth and the lessening burden of physical labor via its automated systems.”
“Man is too frightened to become a man.”
“Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.”
Source: The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...
“Man is too quick at forming conclusions.”
“Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.”
“Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog”
Source: Thurber's Dog's: A Collection of the Master's Dogs
“Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.”
“Man is truly born the time he dies.”
“Man is unable to accurately predict events which are but twenty-four hours distant; only the Divine Mind could have foretold the future, centuries before it came to be. Hence, we affirm with the utmost confidence, that the hundreds of fulfilled prophecies in the Bible attest and demonstrate the truth that the Scriptures are the inspired, infallible, inerrant Word of God.”
Source: Divine Inspiration of the Bible
“Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!”
Source: The Haunted Bookshop
“Man is under all conditons immersed in a sea of God's blessings. Therefore, be thou not hopeless under any circumstances, but rather be firm in thy hope”
“Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.”
Source: The Possessed: Dostoevsky's Collections
“Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth. We spend billions of dollars each year to set up court systems to see that justice is done, and we build prisons for those who transgress the laws we enact.”
“Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.”
Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization
“Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make”
“Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.”
“Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.”
“Man is unpredictable, despite Mr. Wells' good record. On Monday, man may be hysterical with doom, and on Tuesday you will find him opening the Doomday Bar & Grill and settling down for another thousand years of terrifying queerness.”
Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters
“Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.”
“Man is valuable like money.”
“Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon his mind. A government continually at a distance and out of sight, can hardly be expected to interest the sensations of the people. The inference is, that the authority of the Union, and the affections of the citizens towards it, will be strengthened rather than weakened by its extension to what are called matters of internal concern.”
Source: America's Founding Documents: The Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the United States Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and the Bill of Rights
“Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.”
“Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.”
“Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.”
Source: Let Me Count the Ways: A Novel
“Man is what he believes – believe in yourself”
“Man is what he believes.”
Source: The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull
“Man is what he reads.”
“Man is what he wills himself to be.”
Source: The Philosophy of Existentialism: Selected Essays
“Man is what his dreams are.”
“Man is whoever he thinks he is, within his own boundaries.”
Source: Undue Rewards
“Man is whole when he is in tune with the winds, the stars, and the hills... Being in tune with the universe is the entire secrets.”
“Man is wise ... when he recognizes no greater enemy than himself.”
“Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.”
“Man is wise not because he talks the most but because he knows how to tame his demons when hell break loose;he's a leader not because of the multitude behind him but because he shows his face to his people when they need inspiration & his back when they need to be led”
“Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.”
“Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.”
“Man is without mercy but the Maker is full of great mercies.”
“Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.”
Source: Stray Birds
“Man is, above all, he who creates.”