M Quotes
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“Man lives for science as well as bread.”
Source: Essays, Comments, and Reviews
“Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, for the shadow of mortality constantly accompanies us on our life's journey. From the very moment of our birth, the inexorable march towards the unknown horizon of death begins. The awareness of our own mortality serves as a constant reminder that our time here is limited, urging us to seize each moment with purpose, to chase our dreams with unwavering determination, and to cultivate deep connections with others.”
“Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.”
Source: Collected Works
“Man lives in a paradox. It is very easy to dream about love, peace and God, while man at the same time prepares for war, violence and destructivity. Man talks about peace and at the same time invents atom bombs. In fact, even in the name of peace, man is ready to go to war. All countries call their war ministries "defence ministries", so one can wonder who is really starting wars.
A man of peace has to go through an inner transformation. Only then the dream of being a man of peace becomes a reality. He has to transformhis violence into love. Until this happens he has not grown up. Until then he will create destruction in the world. Meditation is the process to grow up. Meditation is the process to become a man of peace.
All that is violent, masculine and destructive is praised and admired in the world, because we have created a violent and ugly world. We have created a society, which is rooted in our animal heritage.
The philosopher Bertrand Russel was one asked what his opinion about civilization was. He said: "It is a good idea. Somebody has to practice it." The civilization has not happened yet. Man lives in an uncivilized way, which is why aggressiveness, violence and war are praised. We have to create a new world, a new society, which is rooted in qualities of love and awareness, rather than violence and war.
The man of meditation will live with people, who want to cling to the past and who are the majority of people, but that is the way of being a pioneer.”
Source: Meditation: A Love Affair with the Whole - Thousand and One Flowers of Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Freedom, Beauty and the Divine
“Man lives in a world of meaning.”
“Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.”
Source: Art as Experience
“Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.”
“Man lives in the body as a prisoner; when his term is over, he suffers the indignity of being thrown out. Love of the body is therefore nothing more than love of jail. Long accustomed to living in the body, we have forgotten what real freedom means. Being a Westerner is no excuse for not seeking freedom. It is vital to every man that he discover his soul and know his immortal nature. Yoga shows the way.”
Source: Man's Eternal Quest
“Man lives in the darkness of unconsciousness. The dawn has not come. It is still night. The majority of people live in the darkness of unconsciousness, while a small minority are attracted to the light of consciousness.
The light of consciousness has opened for a few people, but it is so few people that it seems fictitious for the majority of people.
They cannot understand, because a man can only understand that which has happened to him.
The goal for the seeker of truth is the search for the light of consciousness. The darkness and unconsciousness from the inside has to be dropped. And when your life is full of light it's a totally different life. From the outside everything seems to be the same, but from the inside nothing is the same anymore.”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“Man lives in the house of nature. If he destroys the house, he shall be destroyed as well!”
“Man lives in time but his life transcends time.”
“Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.”
“Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is his continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by turns; the third, waking forever.”
Source: Das Büchlein Vom Leben Nach Dem Tode Engl
“Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.”
Source: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
“Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.”
“Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.”
Source: The Northrop Frye Quote Book
“Man liveth from hour to hour, and knoweth not what may happen; Influences circle him on all sides, and yet must he answer for his actions: For the being that is master of himself, bendeth events to his will, But a slave to selfish passions is the wavering creature of circumstance.”
Source: Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hactenus
“Man loads the world; woman takes the world's load!”
“Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.”
“Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.”
“Man looks on woman from his vantage point and reduces her to a being that is not for-itself but for-him.”
Source: Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence
“Man looks very coward and extremely primitive with an ostentatious big sword and he looks very brave and tremendously sophisticated with a humble olive branch!”
“Man loves because he is Love. He seeks Joy, for he is Joy. He thirsts for God for he is composed of God and he cannot exist without Him.”
“Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.”
“Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.”
“Man loves his own ruin. The cup is so sweet that though he knows it will poison him, yet he must drink it. And the harlot is so fair, that though he understands that her ways lead down to hell, yet like a bullock he follows to the slaughter till the dart goes through his liver. Man is fascinated and bewitched by sin.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.”
“Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.”
“Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country.”
Source: Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry
“Man loves pleasure. But women desire purposeful commitment.”
“Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.”
“Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.”
Source: Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings
“Man lässt Menschen nicht ahnungslos zurück, weil man ihnen nicht zutraut, eine Freundschaft aufrechtzuerhalten.”
Source: Since You've Been Gone
“Man macht sich gar nicht klar genug, dass die gesamte Politik der Gegenwart auf das Problem der Klimaleugnung fokussiert ist.”
Source: Das terrestrische Manifest
“Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as 'my god' or 'our god'.”
“Man made God in his own image.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilisation and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.”
Source: the female eunuch
“Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.”
Source: PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS
“Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.”
Source: Night Thoughts ... With notes ... by the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon ... To which are added the author's poem on the Last Day, the paraphrase on part of the Book of Job [with other poems], and his life
“Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.”
Source: Bright Cages: Selected Poems and Translations from the Chinese
“Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.”
Source: Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished
“Man makes god in his own image.”
“Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.”
“Man makes his history with the one hand and "holds it up" with the other.”
Source: Nightwood
“Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal or human, through all short-lived cultures. It is primary, unchanging, everlasting, maternal, plantlike, and cultureless. If we look back we find that it is synonymous with life itself.”
Source: Aphorisms
“Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.”
“Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.”
“Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.”
“Man makes one journey all his living days, Down through the realms of music and of art; Down through the halls of fame and glorious praise; Down through the tears and triumphs of the heart To some sweet woman waiting some place there. For her he builds his cities and makes war, Seeks gold and glorious wealth to store.”