M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.”
“Man created God in his own image.”
Source: The essence of Christianity
“Man created God, not God, man”
“Man created Guilt. Guilt is the Perpetual Engine that Drives the World.”
“Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.”
“Man created languages, but God created laughter. Humanity can always laugh together even if it can't always speak together.”
“Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.”
Source: Cat's Cradle: A Novel
“Man created this ecological disaster. They knew the risks, the damage, and yet they persisted. Everything that happens here is because they did not heed their own warnings.”
Source: Uncanny X-Men (2018) #4
“Man created words to free himself”
Source: Love
“Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.”
Source: Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings
“Man creates truths, believes in them and submits to them”
“Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself.”
Source: The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
“Man creates what he is, man creates himself. The meaning has to be created. You have to sing your meaning, you have to dance your meaning, you have to paint your meaning, you have to live it. Through living, it will arise; through dancing, it will start penetrating your being. Through singing, it will come to you. It is not like a rock just lying there to be found, it has to bloom in your being.”
“Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.”
“MAN "Dan zou mijn verdriet over zijn?"
VOGEL "Nee, zeker niet. Maar je wanhoop was over. Verdriet heb je nog steeds, maar daar heb je geen kraai bij nodig.”
Source: Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
“Man darf Bücher nicht egoistisch lieben, Bücher genauso wenig wie alles andere. Wir sind nur auf Erden, um Dinge weiterzugeben, wissen Sie... Zu lernen, seine Spielsachen zu teilen, ist wahrscheinlich die wichtigste Lektion, die man sich im Leben aneignen muss.”
Source: Das Labyrinth der Wörter
“Man darf nur von "Männern mit zurückgehendem Haaransatz" sprechen. "Glatze" ist diskriminierend. Ich hab mir mal einen Witz erlaubt und "follikulär gehandicapte Herren" vorgeschlagen und, Mann, sind die vielleicht ausgerastet!”
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.”
“Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator, and love is the one thing no one, not even God himself, can command. It is a free gift or it is nothing. And it is most itself, most free, when it is offered in spite of suffering, of injustice, and of death . . . The justification of the injustice of the universe is not our blind acceptance of God's inexplicable will, nor our trust in God's love, his dark and incomprehensible love, for us, but our human love, notwithstanding anything, for him.”
“Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose, then, that the gardener of this garden knew no other distinction between edible and inedible, nine-tenths of this garden would be useless to him. He would pull up the most enchanting flowers and hew down the noblest trees and even regard them with a loathing and envious eye. This is what the Steppenwolf does with the thousand flowers of his soul. What does not stand classified as either man or wolf he does not see at all.”
Source: Steppenwolf
“Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors.”
“Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels. That is why so many actes gratuites are criminal: a man asserts his freedom by disobeying a law and retains a sense of self-importance because the law he has disobeyed is an important one. Much crime is magic, an attempt to make free with necessity.”
Source: Essays
“Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels.”
“Man desires, woman is desired.”
“Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.”
Source: Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .
“Man deÞ swa he byÞ Þonne he mot swa he wile, ‘A man does as he is when he can do what he wants’, and what this means is that power reveals character, not that it alters it.”
Source: J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
“Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for knowledge. And the answers he received to the questions, "Where do I come from?", "What is man?", although they made him poorer by a few illusions, gave him in compensation a knowledge of his past that is vaster than he could ever have dreamed. For it emerged that the history of life was his history too.”
“Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured”
“Man did not make the earth, and though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property in perpetuity, any part of it.”
Source: Collected Writings
“Man, didn't anybody ever tell you that art is propaganda? It doesn't matter whether you think it should be or it shouldn't be, it just is, and motherfucker, like or not, you're sitting on a funky Magna Carta.”
Source: Slumberland
“Man didn't put me in this place [in entertaining industry]. I'm in this position because of God. And so, if man didn't put me in this place, I really don't see no man that can take me out of here.”
“Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Man dies of cold, not of darkness.”
“Man dies. Come from darkness, into darkness he returns, and is reabsorbed, without a trace left, into the illimitable void of time.”
“Man differs more from man than man from beast”
Source: The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose
“Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.”
Source: The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham
“Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him.”
Source: Poems
“Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.”
“Man distinguishes himself from Nature. This distinction of his is his God: the distinguishing of God from Nature is nothing else than the distinguishing of man from Nature. … [S]peculations and controversies concerning the personality or impersonality of God are therefore fruitless, idle, uncritical … ; … they in truth speculate only concerning themselves, only in the interest of their own instinct of self-preservation[.]”
Source: Essence of Christianity
“Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!”
“Man does indeed know intuitively more than he rationally understands. The question, however , is how we can gain access to the potentials of the knowledge contained in the depth of us, how we can achieve increased capacities of direct intuition and enlarged awareness.”
“Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness.”
Source: Earthly Powers
“Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.”
Source: The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism
“Man does not commit sin in unintentional deed,
but he might be the only one that could justify it.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.”
“Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.”
“Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. Man can serve his age or rebel against it, but the target of his cooperation or rebellion comes to him from outside.”
“Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.”
Source: The Power of Purpose
“Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.”
Source: Bruissement de la Langue
“Man does not fear death, only the suffering.”