M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?”
Source: A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
“Man always need discomfort for awaken.”
“Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived.”
“Man always thinks about the past before he dies.”
“Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.”
“Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished
“Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.”
Source: Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo
“Man and beast needed to be near her, and there was nothing in the wide world I could do to deny it. Her proximity was all I needed.”
Source: Wolf Gone Wild
“Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember.”
“Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have undergone an internal transformation. But if man, man who is endowed with reason and kindness, should conquer, then Fascism must perish, and those who have submitted to it will once again become people.”
“Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.”
“Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.”
“Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.”
Source: The Shaking of the Foundations
“Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.”
Source: The Wilderness Journeys
“Man and society are resurrected every moment in the act of hope and of faith in the here and now; every act of love, of awareness, of compassion is resurrection; every act of sloth, of greed, of selfishness is death. Every moment existence confronts us with the alternatives of resurrection or death; every moment we give an answer. This answer lies not in what we say or think, but in what we are, how we act, where we are moving.”
Source: The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology
“Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.”
“Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.”
“Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom.”
Source: Summaries of the sermons and discourses of Sherlock and Jeremy Taylor
“Man and wife make one fool.”
“Man and wife were supposed to stay together because they'd made their vows in front of God and family.”
“Man and wife, being two, are one in love.”
Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words
“Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.”
“Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable.”
“Man and woman are meant to be together.”
“Man and woman are the two wheels of society. If either one becomes defective, the society cannot make progress.”
“Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.”
Source: Winter's Tales
“Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.”
Source: Science And Health
“Man and woman become a devil to each other when they do not separate their spiritual paths, for the nature of created beings is always the nature of differentiation.”
“Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.”
“Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle.”
Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more
“Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.”
“Man appoints, and God disappoints.”
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha
“Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?”
Source: The Four Loves
“Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1926-1929
“Man are nothing but results of genuineness, while god was busy doing mistakes.”
“Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.”
“Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.”
“Man, as a form, bears within him the eternal principle of being, and by economic movement along his endless path his form is also transformed, just as everything that lives in nature was transformed in him.”
“Man as a pure animal does not exist”
Source: Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics
“Man as a thief cannot enjoy life he can only steal, kill and destroy harmony of society.”
“Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.”
“Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition.”
Source: Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park
“Man as scientist has come to know a great deal, but as human being knows and feel intuitively love and ambition, poetry and music. The heart-and-mind reaches deeper than the power of reason alone.”
Source: From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
“Man as seen as an organism or man as seen as a person discloses different aspects of the human reality to the investigator. Both are quite possible methodologically but one must be alert to the possible occasion for confusion. (...) Seen as an organism, man cannot be anything else but a complex of things, of its, and the processes that ultimately comprise an organism are it-processes.”
“Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.”
Source: Night
“Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.”
“Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.”
“Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death.”