M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Man should rule with computers, not vice versa.”
“Man should strive to be a gentleman in a barbaric world, merciful in a merciless time and humane in an inhumane culture.”
“Man should tremble, the world should vibrate, all heaven should be deeply moved when the Son of God appears on the altar in the hands of the priest.”
“Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.”
“Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.”
“Man shows his character best in trifles.”
“Man sieht eines im Laden, man trägt einen Traum fort. Dann kehrt man vielleicht um und kauft ? Was kauft man ? Die Sehnsucht bedarf keines Geldes, die Erfüllung ist es nicht wert.”
Source: Professor Unrat
“Man sieht nur mit dem Herzen gut. Das Wesentliche ist für die Augen unsichtbar.”
Source: Der Kleine Prinz. Franzosisch-Deutsch: Le Petit Prince. Francais-Allemand: Zweisprachig / Bilingue by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
“Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.”
“Man sollte angesichts von Schwierigkeiten und scheinbarem Ärger voller Mut und Vertrauen sein, durch die Erkenntnis, dass es eine mächtige Kraft gibt, dass eine vollendete Weisheit hinter einem steht, und dass alles gut gehen wird. Hierdurch wird ein Mensch seine begrenzte Kraft und Weisheit überwinden und fähig werden, Macht und Weisheit aus der unbegrenzten Quelle zu schöpfen, was ihn letztlich zum Erfolg führen wird. Denn selbst im Falle eines Misserfolgs wird die Erkenntnis einer vollkommenen Kraft und Weisheit, welche neben ihm wirkt, dem Menschen die Kraft geben, sein Scheitern zu ertragen und sich dem Willen Gottes zu ergeben. (S. 69)”
Source: Meisterschaft: Spirituelle Verwirklichung in dieser Welt
“Man sollte nie jemanden anlachen, der vorher nicht wenigstens gelächelt hat.”
Source: Wenn das Glück kommt, muss man ihm einen Stuhl hinstellen
“Man sometimes forget, he will not live forever.”
“Man sometimes forgets the universe completely! His mind is so focused on his own nonsense that it comes to the point that there is no such thing as a universe. But then a rain starts, a wind blows and at that moment the universe reminds us of itself in the simplest possible way!”
“Man sometimes needs only stillness, just stillness!”
“Man sometimes thinks he's been elevated to be the controller, the ruler, but he's not. He's only part of the whole. Man's job is not to exploit, but to oversee, to be a steward. Man has responsibility, not power.”
“Man, sometimes you are clueless. You don’t even see what’s happening.” He perched himself on the arm of the couch so he could look down at Turk. “It’s not just about freaks. I mean, you’re the guy who thinks of ideas and all, but you’re missing it. You don’t even notice that the whole council is either black or Mexican. See, that’s what’s happening: it’s all these minorities hooked up with freaks.”
The wheels in Turk’s mind began to turn slowly. But they were picking up speed. “Jamal’s with us and he’s black.”
“So? We use Jamal. He gets us into Albert’s. You do what you gotta do. All I’m saying is, you and me, we’re normal people. We’re not black or queer or Mexican. And we’re the ones digging toilets. How come?”
Turk knew the answer: because they had failed in their attempt to take over. But he’d never thought about this new angle.
“Astrid’s a normal white person,” Turk argued halfheartedly. “So’s Sam.”
“Sam’s a freak, and I think he might even be a Jew,” Lance said. His eyes were glittering. He was showing his teeth, grinning as he talked. It wasn’t a good look for him. “And Astrid? She’s not even on the council anymore.”
Source: Plague
“Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane.”
Source: The Dream Life of Balso Snell
“Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.”
“Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.”
Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms
“Man stands alone in the universe, a unique product of a long, unconscious, impersonal, material process with unique understanding and potentialities. These he owes to no one but himself, and it is to himself that he is responsible. He is not the creature of uncontrollable and undeterminable forces, but is his own master. He can and must decide and manage his own destiny.”
Source: Life of the past: an introduction to paleontology
“Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.”
Source: Existentialism From Dostoevsky To Sartre
“Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it.”
Source: Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living
“Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it. So we have to take ourselves where we are as materialists, and must take the help of matter and go on slowly until we become real spiritualists, and feel ourselves spirits, understand the spirit, and find that this world which we call the infinite is but a gross external form of that world which is behind.”
Source: Complete Works
“Man stands on this diminutive earth, gazes at the myriad stars and upon billowing oceans and tossing trees—and wonders. What does it all mean? How did it come about?”
Source: Einstein: His Life and Universe
“Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.”
Source: Poetry, Language, Thought
“Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.”
“Man steps on an ant when he can't catch the fly.”
“Man, straying off from the Biblical principles and Natural laws to find meaning and excitement is like getting the two testicles fighting to swop places.”
“Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.”
“Man struggles to survive, not to succumb”
Source: Veronika Decides to Die: A Novel of Redemption
“Man studied birds for centuries, trying to learn how to make a machine to fly like them. He never did do the trick; his final success came when he broke away entirely and tried new methods.”
Source: Who Goes There?: And Other Stories
“Man suffers because he desires permanence inside a reality that is inherently transient.”
“Man suffers for his art.”
Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
Source: Become what You are
“Man suffers through lack of faith in God.”
Source: Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120
“Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny”
“Man surprised me most about humanity.Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
“Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will be, the tragedy of the bedroom.”
“Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food.”
“Man sāpju kauss tik bieži priekšā celts,
Ka daudzkārt labāk būtu nāves dzelts.”
Source: 100 Dzejoļi
“Man takes a great deal of pains to heap up riches, and they are but like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.”
“Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.”
Source: The Art of Seeing Things: Essays
“Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.”
“Man tames not vengeance; vengeance breaks the man.”
Source: The Hollow March
“Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.”
Source: The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion
“Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.”
“Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.”
Source: The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)
“Man tends to think that he is a creator, that he is like God. This is especially true of intellectuals, and in the last century, intellectuals tended to forget that they were like everyone else. Writing this book was a description of man going from a state of God back to a state of man, back to being a normal person.”