M Quotes
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“Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.”
“Man's civility is lagging behind his technological ability. It could mean disaster and catastrophe for the whole world. We're all sinners, everyone of us, and a radical change is needed for all of us.”
“Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round it, you can polish it highly, you can even flatten it a little on one side, whereby you will make it bulge out the other, but you will NEVER, while the world endures and man is man, increase its total circumference.”
Source: Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)
“Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing, it's the most exciting form of communication.”
“Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.”
“Man's condition is never the same; he is humbled, then exalted; sometimes at peace, sometimes persecuted; enlightened today and plunged into darkness tomorrow. What is to be done? As I said, let us be prepared for whatever may happen.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653
“Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.”
Source: The Abolition of Man: C.S. Lewis’s Classic Essay on Objective Morality: A Critical Edition by Michael Ward
“Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men. There neither is nor can be any simple increase of power on Man's side. Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.”
Source: The Abolition of Man: C.S. Lewis’s Classic Essay on Objective Morality: A Critical Edition by Michael Ward
“Man's conscience is the oracle of God.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.”
Source: The Secret of Power: And Other Sermons
“Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.”
Source: The Black Prince
“Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.”
“Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty.”
“Man's destiny is to know, if only because societies with knowledge culturally dominate societies that lack it. Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not master the differential equations of thermodynamics or the biochemical cures of illness. They stay in thatched huts and die young.”
“Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.”
“Man's destiny was no longer determined from 'above' by a super-human wisdom and will, but from 'below' by the sub-human agencies of glands, genes, atoms, or waves of probability. ...they could determine his fate, but could provide him with no moral guidance, no values and meaning. A puppet of the Gods is a tragic figure, a puppet suspended on his chromosomes is merely grotesque.”
“Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.”
Source: Ishmael: A Novel
“Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.”
“Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.”
Source: Brother Brigham challenges the Saints
“Man's drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within its bounds; the creations which yesterday were detested and the obscene become the classics of today.”
“Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.”
Source: On Education
“Man's earthly existence is but a test as to whether he will concentrate his efforts, his mind, his soul upon things which contribute to the comfort and gratification of his physical instincts and passions, or whether he will make as his life's end and purpose the acquisition of spiritual qualities”
“Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.”
“Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.”
“Man's eternal question is:'Who is God?'God's immediate answer is:'My child, who else is God, if not you?”
“Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.”
“Man's existence precedes his essence”
“Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.”
Source: Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action
“Man's experience is indeed a seamless garment, no part of which can be separated from the rest.”
“Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.”
“Man's fear of sexuality is the basis of all horror from the male perspective.”
“Man's feeble race what ills await!
Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain,
Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train,
And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!”
Source: The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).
“Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.”
“Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.”
“Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.”
Source: Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews
“Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
[Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]”
“Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.”
Source: Complete Works
“Man's freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man's enslavement of man.”
“Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.”
Source: SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life
“Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.”
Source: The Life Divine: Art of living
“Man's genius has with God's help produced marvelous technical inventions from creation, especially in our times. The Church, our mother, is particularly interested in those which directly touch man's spirit and which have opened up new avenues of easy communication of all kinds of news, of ideas and orientations.”
“Man's glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in 'his goodness,' for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.”
“Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished”
Source: Long Walk To Freedom
“Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.”
“Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.”
“Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.”
Source: Linus Pauling in His Own Words: Selections From His Writings, Speeches and Interviews
“Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.”
Source: The novels
“Man's greatest advances are weapon advances. Culture follows from weaponry, we are militant like the animals and birds - defending our homes. No matter how far back you go in history, along with the struggle for existence, along with the survival necessities - kill or be killed, eat or be eaten - there is a hunger for something spiritual. He invents God, prayers, incantations to something above him. Why? This is not brought out - this is not weapon culture.”
“Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.”
Source: The Complete Stories