M Quotes
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“Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.”
Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68
“Man never ceases to seek knowledge about the objects of his experiences, to understand their meaning for his existence and to react to them according to his understanding. Finally, out of the sum total of the meanings that he has deduced from his contacts with numerous single objects of his environment there grows a unified view of the world into which he finds himself "thrown" (to use an existentialist term again) and this view is of the third order.”
“Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.”
“Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.”
Source: Critical Writings
“Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.”
Source: What is man
“Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.”
Source: Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places
“Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.”
“Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.”
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
“Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.”
“Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.”
“man, no faith released on stable version!”
“Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through the pangs of youth and age. Today he is more likely to sit before a screen and dream the mass dream which comes from outside.”
Source: The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic
“Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that his life is determined by these two facets, of which he knows only that he does not know them”
Source: Creation and fall: a theological interpretation of Genesis 1-3
“Man, no wonder Kat left you. You smell, your hair is knotted, and you haven't shaved in how many days? Forget fighting the gallu. One whiff of you would kill them." He looked at Kish as he stood up. "Don't strike a match. The alcohol fumes alone would send him up like a Roman candle."
"Shut up," Sin snarled as he got up and grabbed the half-empty bottle of Jack Daniel's off the coffee table. He headed for his bedroom so that he wouldn't have to put up with their nagging anymore.
At least that was the plan, but the walls were so thin, he couldn't help but overhear them.
"When was the last time he changed those clothes?" Damien asked.
"I think it was the last time he bathed ... the day Kat left."
Sin heard the sound of glasses clinking together.
Damien cursed. "How much shit is he drinking?"
"Let me put it to you this way ... I restock the cabinet twice a day now."
"Damn, how can he fight the demons and be that wasted?"
"I think you were right earlier. He strikes a match and breathes at them. Like a human blowtorch.”
Source: Devil May Cry
“Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.”
Source: Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet: an Unofficial Report Commissioned by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
“Man O' War was a great racehorse, but if I put a extra 20 pounds on him they would say I was cruel to the animal. So don't ask me to do that to Chavez.”
“Man obviously is a being. As such he belongs to the totality of Being—just like the stone, the tree, or the eagle. But man's distinctive feature lies in this, that he, as the being who thinks, is open to Being, face to face with Being; thus man remains referred to Being and so answers to it. Man is essentially this relationship of responding to Being, and he is only this.”
Source: Identity and Difference
“Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to happiness and virtue, but would not! You are the destroyer of my Soul; You are my Murderer, and on you fall the curse of my death and my unborn Infant’s! Insolent in your yet-unshaken virtue, you disdained the prayers of a Penitent; But God will show mercy, though you show none. And where is the merit of your boasted virtue? What temptations have you vanquished? Coward! you have fled from it, not opposed seduction. But the day of Trial will arrive! Oh! then when you yield to impetuous passions! when you feel that Man is weak, and born to err; When shuddering you look back upon your crimes, and solicit with terror the mercy of your God, Oh! in that fearful moment think upon me! Think upon your Cruelty! Think upon Agnes, and despair of pardon!”
Source: The Monk
“Man of simple life envies the man of complex life and man of complex life envies the man of simple life! The solution is simple: Let them taste the lives they envy. And thus the envy will disappear; it will replace with the truth!”
“Man Of Steel looks great, is well cast, and is, moralistically, completely rotten to the core.”
“Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time he asks for His grace, expresses his needs and those of his brothers in suffering. Such a type of prayer demands complete renovation. The modest, the ignorant, and the poor are more capable of this self-denial than the rich and the intellectual.”
“Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology
“Man often overstates the trivial things and understates the vital ones!”
“Man often thinks of either his past or his future and in the mean time today passes like a fast train, disappearing forever on the horizon of life!”
“Man, oh, man. He is one high-maintenance marsupial.”
Source: Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum
“Man on his death bed regrets
i could have breathed in universal sync
Experienced the cosmic link
Life passed by in a blink
Couldn't sleep more than forty winks!
Think...
Let your rhythm with life get synchronised...
Get #Mickeymized!”
“Man on his own is impotent and because of this impotence and the idea that he can do everything, there is a dilemma, the predicament of the human mind.”
Source: Let go!: A darshan diary
“Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.”
“Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.”
Source: Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way
“Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.”
“Man only can be aware of the insensibility of man towards a new gown.”
Source: Northanger abbey
“Man only honors what he conquers or defends.”
“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
Source: Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
“Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.”
Source: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND AND THE GRAND INQUISITOR
“Man only need to discover his world.”
“Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.”
“Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)
“Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.”
“Man only remains hypnotised with the false idea of an ego. When this ghost is off from us, all dreams vanish, and then it is found that the one Self only exists from the highest Being to a blade of grass.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Man or woman in the White House. How about that?”
“Man or woman, you have to have the mental characteristics, the ability to concentrate, the focus, the flexibility, where women have the advantage, and strength-to-weight ratio. It does depend on the raw power.”
“Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in sleep - not conscious of what he is doing, not conscious of what he is saying, not conscious of all that surrounds him. He moves surrounded in a dark cloud of unawareness. According to Gautama the Buddha, this is the original sin: to live unconsciously, to act out of unconsciousness. In fact, the word 'sin' comes from a root which means forgetfulness. Sin simply means that we are not conscious, aware, alert, that we don't have any inner light to guide us.”
“Man ordinarily lives in a state of unconsciousness. Man lives almost in a kind of sleep. Only in a minimal way he is awake. Only in an emergency does he suddenly become alert. Suddenly you will see a change and a alertness in him, which was not there a moment ago.
Suddenly all your thinking disappears, all your dreaming disappears and all the fantasies that continuously goes on has stopped. For a moment the mind stops, there is a blank and in that intervall you are alert.
Ordinarily it seems that a person can only attain to a few second of awareness in his whole life. People live like robots, machines. People go on doing things effectively and mechanically, but that does not prove that we are conscious.
The ordinary man, the mob, the crowd, is unconscious and mechanical. The society wants people who are unconscious and mechanical, because they are easy to manipulate, control and exploit.
It is only through consciousness that you can go beyond this mechanicalness. The spiritual journey means that you are given a new dimension, the spiritual dimension. The whole work of the spiritual journey is to bring you some consciousness of your self, of your being. It is an effort to make you conscious,to help you to rise above your biology, unconsciousness and mechanicalness.
Very few people have attained to their spiritual selves. Most peoplel ive on the biological level, and they die on the biological level. Everybody has the potential, but most people do not work on it, so it remains a lost potential., The potential has to become actual.
So make an effort to make your life concentrated effort to become more and more conscious. And as glimpses of consciousness start arising in you, you will be surprised that bliss will follow each moment of consciousness. As consciousness deepens, bliss deepends. Bliss is the consequence of being conscious.”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.”
“Man overboard,” he murmurs, wrapping me up in his arms and we’re laughing and then the laughing dies out because who knew kissing could be like this, could so alter the landscape within, tipping over oceans, sending rivers up mountains, unpouring the rain.”
Source: I'll Give You the Sun
“Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.”
Source: Einstein's Violin: A Conductor's Notes on Music, Physics, and Social Change
“Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.”
Source: Lateral thinking for management: a handbook