M Quotes
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“Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.”
Source: The odes of Píndar
“Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?”
“Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.”
“Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man can and ought to be a hero.”
Source: High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way
“Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the attainment of spirituality.”
“Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow, by a short circuit providing the certainty of complete and inalterable truth. Science meanwhile advances at its gradual pace, often slowing to a crawl, and for periods it even walks in place, but eventually it reaches the various ultimate trenches dug by philosophical thought, and, quite heedless of the fact that it is not supposed to be able to cross those final barriers to the intellect, goes right on.”
Source: His Master's Voice
“Man's rank is his power to uplift.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books”
“Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot.”
“Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)
“Man's Reason is in such deep insolvency to sense,that tho' she guide his highest flight heav'nward, and teach himdignity morals manners and human comfort,she can delicatly and dangerously bedizenthe rioting joys that fringe the sad pathways of Hell.”
“Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.”
Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS
“Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos--to the unknown--which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination.”
Source: The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature
“Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the most respectable kind of knowledge.”
“Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.”
Source: H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction
“Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.”
“Man's responsibility, then, is to choose his destination; the motive power to bring him there is furnished by the Infinite.”
“Man's restlessness makes him strive.”
“Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan.”
Source: Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy
“Man's right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfoldment or, in other words, his right to be rich.”
Source: The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work
“Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.”
Source: Samuel Adams: selections from his writings
“Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.”
“Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.”
Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world
“Man's salvation and perfection consists of doing the will of God which he must have in view in all things, and at every moment of his life.”
“Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.”
“Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning.”
Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition
“Man's security comes from within himself.”
“Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases”
Source: The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“Man's sense of values is so degraded that he does not revere the Geetha, as much as he values and scans the pages of the daily newspaper. This is to be attributed to sheer ignorance and perversity, or pitiable fate.”
“Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.”
“Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.”
Source: Guide for the perplexed
“Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.”
Source: Insecurity of Freedom
“Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees in it.”
“Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.”
“Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.”
Source: Secret Teachings of All Ages
“Man's strength is but little, and futile his concerns.”
“Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.”
Source: Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad
“Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.”
Source: Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
“Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.”
Source: Memories, dreams, reflections
“Man's the bad child of the universe”
Source: War and Laughter
“Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God's thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God's purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.”
“Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it”
Source: A Brief History of the Future: A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-first Century
“Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.”
“Man's true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever.”
“Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.”
“Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.”
Source: The Essential Tillich
“Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.”
“Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning.”
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
“Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.”