M Quotes
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“Man must never be overcomed by his mistakes.”
“Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.”
Source: The Radical King
“Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.”
“Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.”
“Man must not rely on pure reason; he must mix faith with it.”
“Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person.”
“Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.”
“Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts.”
“Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.”
“Man must seek his Maker.”
“Man must seek is Maker.”
“Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.”
“Man must sing to uplift his soul.”
“Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.”
Source: My Life (Revised and Updated)
“Man must spend much more time in extraordinary natural places to grasp much better how remarkable our planet is and to realise what a great privilege and what an enormous joy to be living here!”
“Man must strive, and striving he must err.”
Source: Faust
“Man must suffer to be wise.”
“Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.”
“Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.”
“Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.”
“Man must worship or go mad. There is a peril in this part of our nature in that false worship leads to madness as well. Man without the divine falls lower than the beasts. His heart will be of stone. His mind will become a desert. His world will increasingly be a place filled with despair at the prospect that there is nothing but the world, nothing beyond the world, nothing better than the world, nothing for which the world was made, nothing but nothing. Men who believe in nothing, that is, men who place their trust in anything other than the true God, will countenance consuming other men (for instance, in the medicines derived from fetal tissues), killing their own children (in the name of mercy, convenience, or scientific "progress") or enslaving men in the industry of manufacturing death (birth control pills, nuclear weapons, and hospitals with euthanasia policies come to mind). Civilization depends on the true Faith in the true God. Absent that truth, barbarianism will rain terror on the weak, the enemy, the friend, the family, the self. (page 400)”
Source: Distributism for Dorothy
“Man muß alt werden [...] und Geld genug haben, seine Erfahrungen bezahlen zu können. Jedes Bonmot, das ich sage, kostet mir eine Börse voll Gold; eine halbe Million meines Privatvermögens ist durch meine Hände gegangen, um das zu lernen, was ich jetzt weiß, nicht allein das ganze Vermögen meines Vaters, sondern auch mein Gehalt und mein bedeutendes literarisches Einkommen seit mehr als funfzig Jahren. Außerdem habe ich anderthalb Millionen zu großen Zwecken von fürstlichen Personen ausgeben sehen, denen ich nahe
verbunden war und an deren Schritten, Gelingen und Mißlingen ich teilnahm.
Es ist nicht genug, daß man Talent habe, es gehört mehr dazu, um gescheit zu werden; man muß auch in großen Verhältnissen leben und Gelegenheit haben, den spielenden Figuren der Zeit in die Karten zu sehen und selber zu Gewinn und Verlust mitzuspielen.”
Source: J. P. Eckermann Gespräche mit Goethe in den Letzten Jahren Seines Lebens
“Man möge das gegenwärtige Weltgeschehen, welches die ganze Menschheit,wie nie je zuvor, in zwei anscheinend unvereinbare Hälften zerreißt, im Lichte unserer oben angedeuteten psychologischen Regel betrachten: wenn ein innerer Tatbestand nicht bewußtgemacht wird, dann ereignet er sich als Schicksal außen, das heißt, wenn der Einzelne einheitlich bleibt und sich seines inneren Gegensatzes nicht bewußt wird, so muß wohl die Welt den Konflikt darstellen und in zwei Hälften zerteilt werden.”
Source: Aïon : Études sur la phénoménologie du Soi (Essai Espaces Libres)
“Man, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably out to be. His chief occupation is the extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary
“Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.”
Source: Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings
“Man naturally yearns for novelty.”
“Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.”
Source: The Concept of Mind
“Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a sort of animal, namely, a higher mammal. There has yet to be ventured the hazardous leap to the hypothesis that perhaps he is a man.”
Source: The Concept of Mind
“Man needed to dream. Yes, he needed to believe in illusions, to aspire to something more than the miserable, hostile life that suffocated him.”
Source: The Map of the Sky
“Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.”
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
“Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom.”
“Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.”
“Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.”
“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.”
Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche
“Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.”
Source: Wings of Fire: An Autobiography
“Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it; men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason, can exist only as parasites on the thinking of others.”
“Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.”
“Man needs now no more degrees, but character,
No more study, but wisdom.”
“Man needs peace, not war. Man needs love, not violence. We have been tortured enough with ideas of heroes, war, propaganda, hate, destruction and violence.
Science has given us enough destructive power and weapons that if we go living in accordance with the old destructive values then and ideals humanity is finished.
The future belongs to the new man, to the intelligent and creative people, not to the soldier. Only love can give us balance. Humanity has lived against love up to now, and that is why there is so much misery, hate, violence and destruction in the world. This is because humanity has lived in a destructive way up to now.
Now there are only two alternatives: either humanity changes or this is he end of humanity. The time for the old values and ideals are over. We have to live in accordance with a new life affirmative vision of life.”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“Man needs peace, not war. Man needs love, not violence. We have been tortured enough with ideas of heros, war, propaganda, hate, destruction and violence.
Science has given us enough of destructive power and weapons that i f we go living in accordance with the old destructive values then and ideals humanity is finished.
The future belong to the new man, to the intelligent and creative people, not to the soldier.
Only love can give us the balance. Humanity has lived
against love up to now, and that is why there is so much
misery, hate, violence and destruction in the world. This is
because humanity has lived in a destructive way up to
now. Now there are only two alternatives: either
humanity changes or this is the end of humanity.
The time for the old values and ideals are over.We have to
live in accordance with a new life affirmative vision of life.”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.”
“Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.”
“Man needs the mercy of his Maker.”
“Man needs to be Saved from his own Wisdom as much as from his own Righteousness, for they produce one and the same corruption. Nothing saves a man from his own righteousness, but that which delivers him from his own wisdom.”
Source: The Power of the Spirit
“Man needs to choose, not just accept, his destiny.”
“Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.”
“Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.”
“Man needs two important things: Firstly, to know the truths; secondly, to change them if they are not ideal!”
“Man needs valor even to face success, because success can cloud his reason and make him lose merit for not having been able to avoid the excesses of personal vanity.”
Source: Bases for Your Conduct
“Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.”