M Quotes
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“Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.”
“Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.”
“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”
“Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that.”
“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”
“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. One can judge objectively to what extent a person has succeeded in his task, to what degree he has realized his potentialities. If he has failed in his task, one can recognize this failure and judge it for what it is - a moral failure.”
“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.”
“Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.”
“Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.”
“Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.”
“Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.”
“Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within”
Source: Dreamtigers
“Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie,Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store,Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more.”
“Man's mind and spirit grow with the space in which they are allowed to operate.”
“Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.”
Source: WAR AND PEACE Complete Edition – All 15 Books in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of Anna Karenina & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including the Biography & Memoirs of the Author)
“Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.”
“Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action...To remain alive, he must think.”
“Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action. He cannot obtain his food without a knowledge of food and of the way to obtain it. He cannot dig a ditch-or build a cyclotron-without a knowledge of his aim and of the means to achieve it. To remain alive, he must think”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.”
“Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.”
Source: Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis
“Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh: The Secret Edition – Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams
“Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.”
“Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history.”
“Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker.”
Source: Hamishah Humshe Torah Im Ha-Hafterot: Genesis
“Man's most serious activity is play.”
“Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.”
“Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.”
“Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.”
“Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.”
Source: Escape from Evil
“Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.”
Source: Selected Letters
“Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.”
“Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.”
“Man's nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the satanic, and the divine. In man there is something of the pig, the dog, the devil, and the saint.”
“Man's nature is not a bit the same as wines. He loses flavour as his life declines. We drink the oldest wine that comes our way. Old men get nasty, old wines make us gay.”
“Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.”
Source: Collected Works
“Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.”
Source: The Sociology of Georg Simmel
“Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.”
“Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.”
“Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.”
Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.”
“Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.”
“man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.”
“Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.”
Source: The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study
“Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.”
Source: The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study
“Man's origin was as spirit, not a physical body. These souls projected themselves into matter, probably for their own diversion. Through the use of his creative powers for selfish purposes, man became entangled in matter and materiality to such an extent that he nearly forgot his divine origin and nature.”
“Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery - because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy.”
“Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.”
Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography
“Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.”
Source: Juan de Mairena
“Man's Place in Nature.”