M Quotes
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“Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.”
“Man makes religion, religion does not make man”
Source: Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels
“Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.”
Source: Complete Works
“Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.”
“Man maketh a death which Nature never made.”
“Man mano che ci si libera dalle infrastrutture legacy ci si riappropria della libertà di integrare quanta (e quale) tecnologia si vuole, senza essere “tenuti ostaggio” dalle infrastrutture tecnologiche sottostanti.”
Source: Hotel Distribution 2050. (Pre)visioni sul futuro di hotel marketing e distribuzione alberghiera
“Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.”
“Man marries himself if he never wants to be married.”
“Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.”
“Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding”
“Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.”
Source: Collected Poems
“Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.”
Source: The analogy of religion, natural and revealed, to the constitution and course of nature: to which are added, two brief dissertations : On personal identity, and On the nature of virtue; and fifteen sermons
“Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.”
“Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.”
“Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.”
Source: An Account of the Religious and Literary Life of Adam Clarke ...: Written by One who was Intimately Acquainted with Him from Boyhood to the Sixtieth Year of His Age
“Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.”
Source: The Sane Society
“Man may be doomed to loss, sorrow, and desolation, but if he tries his strength and will, however briefly, upon the indifferent vast hostility of the elements, he rages against futility and asserts his right of being”
“Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future.”
Source: The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality
“Man may become the master of himself, and of his environment, because he has the POWER TO INFLUENCE HIS OWN SUBCONSCIOUS MIND, and through it, gain the cooperation of Infinite Intelligence.”
“Man may change, government may change, people may change but Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.”
“Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.”
“Man may doubt here and there, but mankind does not doubt.”
“Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outlived the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill. The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets, So he that tastes woman, woman, woman, He that tastes woman, ruin meets.”
Source: The Beggar's Opera
“Man may fail you.”
“Man may fail you. But God will never forsake you.”
“Man may fall and fail, but God is always right. Man may die and perish, but God is always alive.”
Source: Become a Better You
“Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, in the middle of the day, at the center of a public place, like a cerebral attack. Check mated by 'daily routine', he may feel trapped in a smothering set of circumstances and only a deconstruction of all impeding barriers can bring about a vital mental deliverance. ( "Check and mate" )”
“Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”
Source: The Stand
“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”
“Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes in and deranges the intellect at once. Therefore let a man take counsel of a friend. A doctor can cure everyone but himself; if he falls ill, he sends for a colleague.”
Source: Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga
“Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.”
Source: Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, 'Tis Pity She's A Whore and The White Devil
“Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.”
“Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.”
“Man may rest in the eternal fitness; he may abide in the everlasting; and roam from the beginning to the end of all creation. He may bring his nature to a condition of ONE, he may nourish his strength; he may harmonise his virtue, and so put himself into partnership with God.”
“Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.”
Source: Duke Elric
“Man memories with his head but his meditation comes from his heart.”
“Man might defined as "modern" largely to the extent that he attempts to control, as opposed to adjust himself to, nature.”
Source: The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
“Man might have identified fire, but women identified the way to enjoy with it.”
“Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.”
Source: Collected Works of James Hogg: Novels, Scottish Mystery Tales & Fantasy Stories: Scottish Classics: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The Three Perils of Man, The Brownie of Bodsbeck, The Shepherd’s Calendar and Other Tales
“Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified.–Neville Goddard”
Source: Your Faith is Your Fortune
“Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.”
Source: The Annotated Emerson
“Man muss das Wasser nicht verstehen, um kopfvoran hineinzuspringen!”
Source: Der Trafikant
“Man muss die Geschichten von Migrantinnen und Migranten kennen, um die Herausforderung zu verstehen, vor denen sie in Österreich stehen.”
Source: Generation Haram: Warum Schule lernen muss, allen eine Stimme zu geben
“Man muss durch Feuer gehen, um wiedergeboren zu werden.”
Source: Wanderherzen
“Man muss eine aufgeschlossene Geisteshaltung kultivieren und Dinge lernen, die man heute vielleicht nicht braucht.”
“Man muss jemanden, den man sehr gern hat, in etwas herausragen lassen können, in etwas, von dem man keine Ahnung hat.”
“Man muss keine Angst davor haben, überschwemmt zu werden, wenn man selbst eine Welle ist.”
Source: Like water in your hands
“Man muss wohl als Frau auch immer ein bisschen Nazi sein.”
“Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.”
Source: The Aims Of Astronautics