M Quotes
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“Man can be master of nothing while he fears death, but he who does not fear it possesses all. If there were no suffering, man would not know his limitations, would not know himself. The hardest thing is to be able in your soul to unite the meaning of all. To unite all? Pierre asked himself. "No, not to unite. Thoughts cannot be united, but to harness all these thoughts together is what we need! Yes, one must harness them, must harness them!”
Source: War and Peace
“Man can be scientifically manipulated.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.”
Source: Authority and the Individual
“Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.”
Source: The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 2: Grim Lands
“Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.”
Source: The Powers of The Mind
“Man can become purified, and with divine vision he can see God. You get pure by chanting, then you see Him.”
“Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.”
“Man can bluff all he wants, and the Cosmos can condescend all it wants, but the overcoming of the self-preservation instinct is truly a remarkable feat of achievement that gilds mankind.”
Source: Super Dense Crush Load: The Story of Man Redux
“Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.”
Source: Church Dogmatics Study Edition 11: The Doctrine of God II.2 § 34-35
“Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.”
Source: Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of God, Volume 2, Part2: The Election of God; The Command of God
“Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.”
Source: Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of God, Volume 2, Part2: The Election of God; The Command of God
“Man can change his conditions by changing his words.”
Source: The Game of Life and How to Play It
“Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.”
“Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.”
“Man can choice what to think of.”
“Man can choose to go against the moral laws, but he cannot, as a monster, stay out of the moral sphere, beyond good and evil.”
Source: Islam between East and West
“Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.”
Source: Conceive it! Believe It! Achieve it!
“Man can either exist as an island isolated from existence, thinking himself separate
from existence, or man can live in harmony with existence. The first way is the way
of the ego. It is like trying to swim upstream in opposition to the stream of life. You may succeed for a while, but sooner or later you will become tired and exhausted.
The river is not fighting you. It is just your own idea of being separated that has created the whole problem. You tried to fight with life, and you got defeated.
The river is not responsible. If you had taken a different approach to life, if you had accepted to go with the river of life, there would have been no fight, no struggle, no frustration and no defeat. You would not have felt that existence was against you. You would not have felt that existence is your enemy.
Going with the river, floating with the river, you would have felt that the river was giving you strength. That is the way of the religious person. The first way, the way of the ego, is the way of the irreligious person. The second way, the way of the heart is to be in harmony with existence.
And the moment that you let go and merge with existence, God becomes your strength. Then there is great rejoicement in your heart. Then each moment becomes a joy without any fight, without any struggle. That is the joy of being religious.”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.”
Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays
“Man can exist in two ways. He can exist in time, where we ordinarily exist. To exist in time is bound to bring death. There is birth and there is death. Man can also exist in eternity, where there is no birth and no death.
Mind moves in time in sequence. Time is linear, andmoes from point A to point B. Work is done by the mindwhich is why the universities, the schools and the colleges train your mind, because society needs skilled workers.
Eternity represents meditation. Meditation means to jump out of the mind. It means learning to be absolutely inactive and doing nothing for a few moments. You have only to sit silently, doing nothing, and everything goes on happening of its own accord.
Meditation is not something that has to be done, it is something that has to be understood. If you understand meditation then that is enough. Then you can sit anywhere and fall into meditativeness.
Meditation is not action, but a state of silence, a state of inaction where everything stops. Time stops, movement stops and you are in a total rest. And those are the moments when you know that you are immortal. You know that the body will die, but you are not going to die. Then all fears disappear, because all fears are rooted in death. And to be fearless is the most fundamental thing for living joyously. The fearful person cannot live joyously. He cannot love, because he is afraid.
Meditation is learning to be adventurous, always ready to go into the unknown and always ready to explore that which is not known. He is always ready to take risks, because he knows that there is no death, so there is no fear. Then to live dangerously is playful.
This depends on one thing: that one has some experience of one's immortality. It depends on the experience that "I was never born and I will never die." This is possible through meditation.
A meditator has to learn to do only the essential in life and not waste one's life on doing the non-essentials. You need to learn what is important and meaningful in life.
A meditator has to learn how to relax, how to rest and enjoy rest. And slowly one settles into one's inner being, into one's own centre, and the moment you touch your centre you touch eternity, timelessness, That is what meditation is: an exploration of eternity.”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“Man can exist in two ways: the first way is to fight and struggle on the outside for money, power, prestige, position and possessions. The first way is to conquer the world, and to achieve world dominion. The first way is for the ignorant, stupid and mediocre. That is
the way that the majority of humanity has chosen for the simple reason that everybody is running after it. And seeing that everybody is running after it, the majority of people also
start rushing thinking that there must be something there as so many people are running for it.
Everybody is running, without really knowing why they are running. Nobody is really knows why everybody is running for money, power, prestige and possessions, but they are all running. It is a kind of madness and pathology, which feeds the ego. The ego feeds on fight and struggle.
And when they die, they have to leave everything that they have conquered. That is why everybody is crying and weeping. It is the insight that I have wasted my whole
life, and now my hands are empty. My whole life has passed, and I am going empty-handed. My life has been a wastage,
But there is another way to live. One can be an inner warrior, and conquer one's own ignorance and unconsciousness. One can conquer one's ignorance, greed, anger, violence, desire and sexuality. Then one has known the secret of transforming one's own
being, which creates great joy.
Then you inner being dances with joy, because you know something that death cannot take away from you. You have found the real treasure in life.”
Source: Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace
“Man can find meaning in life only through devoting himself to society.”
Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It
“Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.”
“Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.”
“Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.”
“Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.”
Source: Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851
“Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.”
“Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.”
Source: Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary
“Man can learn everything if he will but try.”
Source: A Passage to India
“Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.”
“Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality.”
“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope.”
“Man can live and satisfy his wants only by ceaseless labor;
by the ceaseless application of his faculties to natural resources.
This process is the origin of property.
But it is also true that a man may live and satisfy his wants
by seizing and consuming the products of the labor of others.
This process is the origin of plunder.”
Source: The Law
“Man can live either as an island isolated from existence. He can think himself separated, but then there is misery. The misery is created, because we are going against existence. You cannot be happy if you are going against existence. Then you are fighting a losing battle trying to swim upstream in opposition to the current of the river of life. You may succeed for a while, but sooner or later you will be tired and exhausted.
It is your own ideas that the river is an enemy that has created the whole problem. The river is not fighting you. You have tried to fight it,and you got defeated. The part can never win over the whole, If you would have accepted going with the flow of the river, there would have been no defeat. You would not have felt that existence has been against you. You would have felt that existence is a friend. You would have felt a joy in going with the river. You would have felt that the river was giving you strength.
That is the way of the religious person. The first way - The way of the ego - is the way of the irreligious person. The second way - The way of the heart - is the way of letting go. It is the way of the religious person.
And the moment that you let go and merge with existence, God becomes your strength and there is great rejoicing in the heart. Then each momentis a moment of joy without any fight and struggle. That is the miracle of being religious.”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“Man can live either as love or as an ego. These are the only two alternatives in life. It is the only two alternative lifestyles. The ego is very attractive, because it promises great things, although it delivers nothing. The ego creates dreams and fantasies, but these fantasies take you further away from yourself. And to be away from yourself is to be away from God, the divine.
Love is not at all persuasive. It will not prove itself. You have to choose love, because it does not propagate itself. When the ego fails, because of its deceptive dreams and mirages, it fails for intelligent people. For the stupdid people, it never fails. In that failure of the ego, one moves to egolessness.
This is what love is: love is egolessness. Now there is nowhere to go, nothing to achieve and your whole energy starts resting within yourself. And when your energy comes to rest at your center, one comes to know that one is not, only God is.
One comes to know that God is my strength. One comes to know that God is my existence, hat God is my being. One comes to know that one is just a small manifestation of divine energy. To know it brings great joy.
All worries disappears, all entities disappear, and now you know that there is somebody greater than you who takes care. You are his project to help you to be joyful.
When you are inside yourself, you immediately hear the still, small voice within you - and that becomes your inner teacher, your inner guide and your guiding star. Then you have your own insight and you know what is right and wrong. Now you know that living according toone'e own being is to live authentically. That is the way of the spiritual person.”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.”
“Man can live in misery, but man can also live in joy. It all depends on how you live, on how
you approach life. If one never learns the art of living, life will be a misery. Unless you learn the art of living, you can't have love, silence, joy, awareness, truth and freedom.
Everybody comes with an inner potential, but very few people develop that potential. The
potential remains unused. One should be more like a flowing river, than a stagnant
pond. We have to become flowing, moving into the unknown and always reaching for the ocean.
This has been called God, truth, nirvana and enlightenment, but it is really nothing but life
blossoming.”
Source: Meditation: A Love Affair with the Whole - Thousand and One Flowers of Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Freedom, Beauty and the Divine
“Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of these laws that enables a student to draw.”
Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study
“Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.”
“Man can never be more perfect than the sun. The sun burns us with the same light that warms us. The sun has spots (stains). The ungrateful only talk about the spots (stains). The grateful talk about the light.”
Source: La edad de oro
“Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.”
Source: Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke
“Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.”
“Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship to the universe.”
“Man can no more leave God out of his philosophies than he can live without his heart or see without his eyes.”
“Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.”
Source: Philosophic Nights in Paris
“Man can not be sad , if he sings.”
“Man can not jump out of his life, but perhaps a novel has more freedom.”
Source: Life is Elsewhere
“Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.”
“Man can not live without music.”