M Quotes
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“Man cannot get out of misery unless he realizes that something in him is deathless. Death is the basic cause of all fears. People are afraid of love, because when they go deep into love they suddenly experience themselves to be close to death. Only meditation can help, because only meditation can make you aware that you are deathless.
Even if you want to die, you cannot because there is no way to die. You existed before birth and you will remain to exist after death. Birth is only entering a certain body, and death is leaving that certain body - but you are eternal.
To experience this eternity, this deathlessness, becomes the foundation for a totally new life. It creates the foundation for a new life style of fearlessness without misery. A person starts living in joy if only one experience becomes possible: deathlessness.”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“Man cannot grieve as dogs do. But we grieve for many years.”
Source: Assassin's Apprentice
“Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.”
“Man cannot live as nothing but an object, as dice thrown out of a cup; he suffers severely when he is reduced to the level of a feeding or propagating machine, even if he has all the security he wants. Man seeks for drama and excitement; when he cannot get satisfaction on a higher level, he creates for himself the drama of destruction. [...] The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life.”
Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
“Man cannot live by bread alone. Every once in awhile he needs a salad.”
“Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.”
“Man cannot live by incompetence alone.”
“Man cannot live by profit alone.”
“Man cannot live in the midst of plenty.”
Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated
“Man cannot live on music; his soul craves for puddings.”
Source: Only a Girl’s Love: The Classic 1901 Romance
“Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.”
Source: Autobiography
“Man cannot live upon words, however he may try.”
Source: Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature
“Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.”
“Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.”
“Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it.”
Source: The Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortations of John Paul II
“Man cannot live without oxygen,
The poets cannot live without love!”
“Man cannot live without science and technology any more than he can live against nature. What needs the most careful consideration, however, is the direction of scientific research. We cannot leave this to the scientists alone.”
Source: Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
“Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.”
“Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.”
Source: Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary
“Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.”
Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion
“Man cannot measure the bounds nor fathom the depths of divine forgiveness.”
Source: Jesus the Christ
“Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.”
“Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.”
Source: War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
“Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilization than other creatures and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena.”
“Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.”
Source: Poet in our time
“Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.”
“Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.”
Source: Man the Unknown
“Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on their sinister ship when you feel as if you were aboard a pleasure yacht.”
Source: The Human Comedy: Selected Stories
“Man cannot stand a meaningless life.”
“Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. Reason is the faculty that perceives, identifies and integrates the material provided by his senses. The task of his senses is to give him the evidence of existence, but the task of identifying it belongs to his reason, his senses tell him only that something is, but what it is must be learned by his mind.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.”
“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. The mind is an attribute of the individual.
The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive. To a creator, all relations with men are secondary.
No man can live for another. He cannot share his spirit just as he cannot share his body. But the second-hander has used altruism as a weapon of exploitation and reversed the base of mankind's moral principles. Men have been taught every precept that destroys the creator. Men have been taught dependence as a virtue.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind.”
“Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.”
“Man City needed something and when Johnson did something, something happened”
“Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him, he liked to say.”
Source: Night
“Man comes from a drop of semen and leaves as a piece of dust. He doesn't know when he came and he doesn't know when he's leaving, yet he walks on the earth thinking he knows everything.”
“Man conquers the world by conquering himself.”
“Man, consider first what the matter is (which you propose to do), then your own nature also, what it is able to bear. If you are a wrestler, look at your shoulders, your thighs, your loins: for different men are naturally formed for different things.”
Source: Discourses and Selected Writings of Epictetus
“Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions.”
Source: The Following of Christ...
“Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.”
“Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up flowers, wind, water, a big rock.
But this hard work, let me tell you. He been there so long, he don't want to budge. He threaten lightening, floods, and earthquakes. Us fight. I hardly pray at all. Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it. Amen”
Source: The Color Purple
“Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock.”
Source: Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism
“Man could be utterly beastly at times and his humour abysmally dark, morbid and demoniac.
- Page 105, Blue Jeans”
Source: Blue Jeans
“Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things.”
“Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.”
Source: The Well Of Loneliness
“Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.”
Source: Suicide: A Study in Sociology
“Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.”
Source: The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America
“Man craves joy far more than anything else in life, but there is nothing as madly intoxicating as the feeling of joy that comes from the soul.”
Source: The Girl on the Trail