M Quotes
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“Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite... Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarreling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: It is even, as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.”
“Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.”
“Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.”
“Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.”
“Man's will and God's grace rise and fall together”
Source: The Spiritual Life
“Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.”
“Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.”
“Man's wobbly little mind isn't equipped for hauling around the great unknowns. Very few people realize, there's no point chasing after answers to life's important questions. They all have fickle, highly whimsical minds of their own. Nevertheless. If you're patient, if you don't rush them, when they're ready, they'll smash into you. And don't be surprised if afterward you're speechless and there are cartoon Tweety Birds chirping around your head. (Gareth van Meer)”
“Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.”
Source: The Power In Praising God
“Man's word is God in man.”
“Man's word is his wand filled with magic and power! Man comes into the world financed by God, with all that he desires or requires already on his pathway. This supply is released through faith and the Spoken Word. If thou canst believe, all things are possible.”
“Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life.”
“Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men.”
Source: Man's world, woman's place: a study in social mythology
“Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.”
“Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.”
Source: Nine Greek Dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes
“Man's worst tragedy in life is his failure to reach his greatest potential”
“Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.”
Source: The works of Edmund Spenser, with notes by H.J. Todd
“Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.”
“Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.”
“Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.”
Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams
“Man, an animal that makes bargains.”
“Man, anytime the ball goes through the basket. It doesn't matter if it's a jumper or a drive. Any time the ball goes through the basket, and it's going through consistently, it's demoralizing for any opponent.”
“Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“Man, as a spiritual being, cannot be maintained in strength, uprightness, and peace except if he periodically withdraw himself from the outer world of perishable things and reach inwardly towards the abiding and imperishable realities.”
Source: Mind is the Master: The Complete James Allen Treasury
“Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.”
Source: Elie Wiesel: Conversations
“Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.”
“Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.”
“Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.”
“Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.”
“Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day.
[Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag,
Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]”
“Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much
less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.”
Source: Arcana Cœlestia: The Heavenly Arcana Contained in the Holy Scriptures Or Word of the Lord Unfolded Beginning with the Book of Genesis Together with Wonderful Things Seen in the World of Spirits and in the Heaven of Angels
“Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts; since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.”
Source: Select sermons: delivered on various occasions from important passages of Scripture
“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.”
“Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.”
Source: Selected Philosophical Works
“Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.”
Source: Essays in Religion and Morality
“Man, Books & Booze is cool, right?. That's the most fun I've had in an interview this year. Definitely the most singing I've done.”
“Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.”
“Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.”
Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences
“Man, by his very nature, tends to give himself an explanation of the world into which he is born. And this is what distinguishes him from the other species. Every individual, even the least intelligent, the lowest of outcasts, from childhood on gives himself some explanation of the world. And with it he manages to live. And without it, he would sink into madness.”
Source: History: A Novel
“Man, Coach Brown, he's so relaxed. We've seen that guy dancing this week at practice and he's dancing in the locker room. It brings tears to guys' eyes and brings happiness to everybody.”
“Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.”
“Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived, and to us the most interesting specimen of Divine wisdom that we have any knowledge of.”
Source: Introductory lectures on political-economy, delivered at Oxford, in Easter term MDCCCXXXI. With remarks on tithes and on poor-laws and on penal colonies
“Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!”
Source: Brothers Karamazov
“Man, do you think yours is the only soul? Look around you. Everything that you see quivers with being. Though your thoughts are free, one thing you do not think about: the whole. Beasts have a mind; respect it. Flowers too- look at one. Nature brought forth each petal. There is a mystery that sleeps in metal. Everything feels, and has power over you.”
“Man, don't ever be sorry you don't want to kill someone.”