M Quotes
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“Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by chance. Neither his destiny nor his duty have been written down. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.”
“Man be merciful, for your Maker is merciful.”
“Man be my metaphor’,”
“Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.”
Source: The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization
“Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.”
Source: Architects of Fate
“Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane.”
“Man becomes fit and functionally valid only when, along with scholarship and expert skills, he has imbibed these values. The person who is wedded to Truth and Love would need nothing more for peace and happiness. When Creation is witnessed through these values, it becomes holy scripture, an inspiring lesson and guide,. Therefore I exhort you: Let Truth and Love be the goals for all your efforts and studies.”
“Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.”
Source: Socialism of My Conception
“Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.”
“Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.”
Source: Volume of prefaces
“Man becomes truly free when he is able to overcome the fear of judgment and that of falling behind. Because only the is he able to set aside his pride, learn from mistakes, and keep a smile no matter what.”
“Man becomes truly free when he is able to overcome the fear of judgment and that of falling behind. Because only then is he able to set aside his pride, learn from mistakes, and keep a smile no matter what.”
“Man becomes truly free when his is able to overcome the fear of judgment and that of falling behind. Because only then is he able to set aside his pride, learn from mistakes, and keep a his smile no matter what.”
“Man becomes uprooted, starts feeling meaningless. All the values of life disappear. A great darkness surrounds. Sense of direction is lost. One simply feels accidental. There seems to be no , no significance. Life seems to be just a byproduct of chance. It seems existence does not care for you. [...] All seems to be pointless. These times of chaos, disorder, can either be a great curse, [...] or they can prove a quantum leap in human growth. It depends on how we use them. It is only in such great times of chaos that great stars are born. [...] The ordinary masses live in such unconsciousness that they can’t see even a few steps ahead. They are blind. And they are the majority! The coming twenty-five years, the last part of this century, is going to be of IMMENSE value. If we can create a great momentum in the world for meditation, for the inward journey, for tranquillity, for stillness, for love, for God... if we can create a space in these coming twenty-five years for God to happen to many many people, humanity will have a new birth, a resurrection. A new man will be born.”
Source: Philosophia Perennis
“Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man!”
“Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.”
“Man becomes what he thinks about”
“Man begets, but land does not beget.”
“Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.”
Source: Philosophic Nights in Paris
“Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude
“Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture passes through the multitude, and corpses whip the ground like bouts of hail.”
“Man believes and lives.”
“Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.”
“Man believes in the possible, but God believes in the impossible.”
“Man belongs to the Earth, Earth does not belong to man”
“Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.”
“Man blindly works the will of fate.
[Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]”
“Man blir ikke ensom av å være alene.”
Source: Bergeners
“Man brevene med posten bandt
og sagde: Vær ei sene!
De svarte: Vi var aldrig vant
på vei at tælle stene!”
Source: Aandelig tids: det er: adskillege Bibelske Historier, uddragen af den ...
“Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac
“Man builds his life on sand. That is why everything he tries to do fail. His life does not have a foundation in the eternal. His life is built on the momentary. And when one house built on sand collapses; he starts to build another house.
We never seem to learn anything. When one desire is frustrated, we immediately jump to another desire. To desire means to go against the whole. Not to desire means to relax with the whole. it means to have no desire of one's own and to go with the whole. It means that whatsoever the whole wills is my will. I am not trying to achieve any individual goal. The moment you try to achieve an individual goal, you are in trouble, because we are not separate from the whole. We have to learn to be be part of life, existence. It is because of our individual goals that every day becomes a frustration.
The seeker of truth has to build his house on a rock, which is only found in meditation. Meditation isa state of no-thought, no desire and no dreams. Then each moment will be a joy, because you are no more.
Meditation means to know that we are no tseparate from life. We are part of an infinite continent, which we can call God, truth, the ultimate, the absolute or the whole.”
Source: Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace
“Man builds no structure which outlives a book.”
“Man by Nature desires to know.”
“Man by nature wants to know.”
“Man, by thinking, can bring into his experience whatsoever he desires--if he thinks correctly, and becomes a living embodiment of his thoughts. This is not done by holding thoughts but by knowing the Truth.”
“Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.”
Source: The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More
“Man calls weakness everything that demands strength from him.”
“Man came first through evolution. God came second through man's imagination.”
Source: In the beginning, Man Created God
“Man came from caves in the beginning and Man will return to caves in the end.”
Source: Finding Jesus
“Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.”
“Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.”
“Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.”
Source: Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad
“Man can attempt to become one with the world by submission to a person, to a group, to an institution, to God. In this way, he transcends the separateness of his individual existence by becoming part of somebody or something bigger than himself, and experiences his identity in connection with the power to which he has submitted.”
Source: The Sane Society
“Man can be a master of his mind.”
“Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!”
“Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.”
“Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.”
Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
“Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.”
“Man can be happy and safe only when the heart feels faster than the mind thinks.”
Source: Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life
“Man can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God's gift of forgiveness.”