M Quotes
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“Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.”
Source: The Writings of John Burroughs. [
“Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.”
Source: Carlyle Reader
“Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.”
Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden
“Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.”
“Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.”
Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books
“Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making/goaded by the spirit of hierarchy (or moved by the sense of order)/and rotten with perfection.”
Source: Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method
“Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.”
Source: A Circle of Quiet
“Man isn't a fool for his ignorance, but rather for believing things that are wrong.”
“Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests are involved-that about sums it up. I'm interested in the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a true picture of him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably doomed to failure.”
“Man ist am Himmel umgeben von einer Scheinwelt, die eigentlich schon längst Geschichte ist.”
Source: Aaarfz
“Man jadda wajada
Siapa yang bersungguh - sungguh, akan berhasil”
“Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.”
“Man just went past with a cat on his head.”
“Man jāpanāk, lai mammas lūpas nevis sakniebtos aizkaitinājumā, bet automātiski vilktos smaidā, kad kāds par mani runā.”
“Man kam nämlich sehr schnell auf merkwürdige Gedanken, wenn man zu lange in dieselben Gesichter sah.”
Source: Night Shift
“Man kand nogenledes undskylde vore Forfædre, efterdi de ingen Idée have havt om Verden, men meenet, at Jorden befattede den største Deel af Skabningen, at Solen var et Corpus som Amager eller Salt-Holmen, og at Stjernerne vare nogle smaa Blommer, som vare satte til Zirat paa Himmelen.”
Source: Epistler
“Man kann auch in die Höhe fallen, so wie in die Tiefe. ("One can as well fall into height as into depth")”
“Man kann den Menschen nicht von seinen Anschauungen trennen. Ich bin davon überzeugt, dass das nicht geht. Wenn jemand beispielsweise glaubt, ass es Menschen gibt, die weniger wert sind als andere, beeinflusst das seine gesamte Persönlichkeit. Es sind schließlich unsere Haltungen, die uns ausmachen.”
Source: Vom Sinn unseres Lebens: Und andere Missverständnisse zwischen Ost und West
“Man kann nie absehen, ob man sein Ziel erreicht. Wenn man sich noch davor befindet, besteht immer die Möglichkeit des Scheiterns. Doch genau dafür gibt es die Hoffnung. Damit man seinen Mut nicht verliert, zu glauben.”
“Man kann tausend Bücher über die Liebe lesen, doch erst der erste Kuss verwandelt Wissen in Erkenntnis.”
Source: Adler trinken Löwenmilch: Wie uralte Weisheit dir zeigt, jedes Problem in Stärke und Klarheit zu verwandeln, Chancen zu nutzen und Erfüllung im Alltag zu finden
“Man keeps inventing things all the time.”
“Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.”
“Man kept control over the machines he created, I wish God would have done the same with the man he created.”
“Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.”
“Man knows, and in the course of years he comes to know it increasingly well, feeling it ever more acutely, that memory is weak and fleeting, and if he doesn't write down what he has learned and experienced, that which he carries within him will perish when he does. This is when it seems everyone wants to write a book. Singers and football players, politicians and millionaires. And if they themselves do not know how, or else lack the time, they commission someone else to do it for them...engendering this reality is the impression of writing as a simple pursuit, though those who subscribe to that view might do well to ponder Thomas Mann's observation that, 'a writer is a man for whom writing is more difficult than it is for others”
Source: Travels with Herodotus
“Man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance.”
“Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.”
“Man knows much more than he understands.”
Source: Social Interest: Adler's Key to the Meaning of Life
“Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.”
“Man knows so much and does so little.”
“Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.”
“Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously believes that these things can every one of them , in all their tones and semi-tones, in all their blends and unions, be accurately represented by an arbitrary system of grunts and squeals. He believes that an ordinary civilized stockbroker can really produce out of his own inside noises which denote all the mysteries of memory and all the agonies of desire.”
“Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.”
Source: Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom
“Man könnte das alles eine schlechte Welt nennen, aber es war seine einzige und als solche liebte er sie.”
Source: Jacob beschließt zu lieben
“Man labels creatures in the wild as beasts for they see violence and malice in their eyes. Truth is it’s just a reflection. There are no beasts in the world of animals, only in the world of men.”
Source: The Complete Works of a Lost Girl
“Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.”
“Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.”
“Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.”
“Man lebt doch nur ein einziges Mal – warum dann als Projektion der Vorstellungen anderer?”
Source: Im Ereignishorizont: Gedichte
“Man, life's going to keep pushing you around, but you have to keep playing.”
“Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.”
Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It
“Man, like every other organism, can only live by the transformation of his environment to his own use. He must transform his environment from a condition where it is less to a condition where it is more subservient to his needs.
That special, conscious, and intelligent transformation of his environment which is peculiar to the peculiar intelligence and creative faculty of man we call the Production of Wealth.
Wealth is matter which has been consciously and intelligently transformed from a condition in which it is less to a condition in which it is more serviceable to a human need.
Without Wealth man cannot exist. The production of it is a necessity to him, and though it proceeds from the more to the less necessary, and even to those forms of production which we call luxuries, yet in any given human society there is a certain kind and a certain amount of wealth without which human life cannot be lived: as, for instance, in England to-day, certain forms of elaborately prepared food, clothing, fuel, and habitation.
Therefore, to control the production Of wealth is to control human life itself. To refuse man the opportunity for the production of wealth is to refuse him the opportunity for life; and, in general, the way in which the production of wealth is by law permitted is the only way in which the citizens can legally exist.”
Source: The Servile State
“Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation.”
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield
“Man lives as long as he learns.”
“Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.”
“Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.”
“Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.”
Source: War and Peace
“Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.”
Source: WAR AND PEACE Complete Edition – All 15 Books in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of Anna Karenina & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including the Biography & Memoirs of the Author)