M Quotes
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“Man's greatest battle is being a true philosopher.”
“Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
“Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.”
Source: The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant
“Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.”
“Man's greatest fear is chaos.”
“Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.”
“Man's greatest joy is to slay his enemy, plunder his riches, ride his steeds, see the tears of his loved ones and embrace his women”
“Man's greatest power lies in the power of prayer.”
“Man's greatest victory is over oneself.”
“Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.”
“Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.”
Source: The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: Early years, 1817-1849
“Man's greatness does not consist in being different from the animals that share the earth with him, but in being...conscious of things of which his environment has no inkling.”
“Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched to know oneself wretched; but it is being great to know that one is wretched.”
“Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.”
Source: Pensées
“Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.”
Source: White Noise
“Man's happiness really lies in contentment.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“Man's health and well-being depends upon, among many things, the proper functioning of the myriad proteins that participate in the intricate synergisms of living systems.”
“Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.”
“Man's Heart serves as a transmitter and receiver from person to person and from servant to Glorious God.”
“Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride; Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.”
Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre
“Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.”
“Man's highest joy is in victory: to conquer one's enemies; to pursue them; to deprive them of their possessions; to make their beloved weep; to ride on their horses; and to embrace their wives and daughters.”
“Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.”
Source: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels
“Man's history has been graven on the rock of Egypt, stamped on the brick of Assyria, enshrined in the marble of the Parthenon-it rises before us a majestic presence in the piled up arches of the Coliseum-it lurks an unsuspected treasure amid the oblivious dust of archives and monasteries-it is embodied in all the looms of religions, of races, of families.”
Source: Essays on Art and Archaeology
“Man's history is woven into waterways, for not only did he live beside them, but he used them as highways for hunting, exploration, and trade. Water assured his welfare, its absence meant migration or death, its constancy nourished his spirit. A mountain, a desert, or a great forest might serve his need of strength, but water reflects his inner needs.”
Source: Wilderness Days
“Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle indulgences of fancy.”
Source: The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education
“Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.”
Source: Invisible Man
“Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.”
“Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.”
“Man's ignorance of the Law of Love in personal and world relationships will not serve as an excuse to save him from disaster. Wealth cannot be acquired from others by might, for wealth thus taken will impoverish him who takes anything which is not given. Nor can power be thus acquired, for the weakness of the despoiled will prevail against the might of the despoiler.”
“Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.”
“Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer”
Source: My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn
“Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.”
Source: Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
“Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals”
“Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!”
“Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.”
Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition
“Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.”
“Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be
counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites
are paid.”
“Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation”
“Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral”
“Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.”
Source: Sermons and Addresses Delivered in America
“Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.”
Source: The Encyclicals of John Paul II
“Man's life is a progress, not a station.”
“Man's life is but a jest,
A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best.”
“Man's life is entirely in his operations, which may all be classed under three heads: he thinks, he feels, and he acts -- these three modes of activity exhaust his powers.”
Source: The Doctrine of Life: With Some of Its Theological Applications
“Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.”
“Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.”
“Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.”
“Man's life is thought,
And he, despite his terror, cannot cease
Ravening through century after century,
Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come
Into the desolation of reality.”
Source: The Major Works
“Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.”