M Quotes
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“Man exists, turns up, appears on the scene and only afterwards, defines himself”
Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism
“Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.”
“Man feels and ponders death as though it were the end, when in fact death is merely the continuation of life. It is another life. You may not believe in the existence of the soul, yet you must acknowledge that your body will live on as green grass, as a cloud. For you are, after all, water and dust.”
Source: Ghetto Diary
“Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all exists. This astonishment cannot be expressed in the form of a question, and there is also no answer whatsoever. Anything we might say is a priori bound to be nonsense. Nevertheless we do run up against the limits of language. Kierkegaard too saw that there is this running up against something, and he referred to it in a fairly similar way (as running up against paradox). This running up against the limits of language is ethics.”
“Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident.”
“Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!”
“Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and invisible: his thought dives through the ocean, and his wishes thread the air: has he found all the pathways yet? What reaches him, stays with him, rules him: he must accept it, not knowing its pathway.”
Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus
“Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.”
Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more
“Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort.
Then he faces his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
And at once there wells up from the depths of his soul boredom, gloom, depression, chagrin, resentment, despair.”
Source: Pensées
“Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.”
“Man finds religion when he can't find purpose.”
“Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.”
“Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.”
“Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image.”
Source: The essence of Christianity
“Man follows only phantoms.”
“Man," Fonny says, "we just have to move it from day to day. If you think too much about it, you really are fucked, can't move at all.”
Source: If Beale Street Could Talk
“Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.”
“Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else.”
“Man, free thinker!
Do you imagine you alone think in this world where life is blazing forth in all things?
You are free to avail yourself of the forces you command, but the universe has gone missing from your prescriptions.”
“Man fucks woman; subject verb object.”
Source: Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
“Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.”
“Man gave up his will to survive when he asked money to take care of his every need.”
“Man gave us laws, and God gave us time,
It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine.”
“Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.”
“Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.”
“Man glaubt, woran man kann, nicht, woran man will. Außer man ist ein Idiot, dann ist es genau umgekehrt.”
“Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.”
Source: Meister Eckhart
“Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.”
“Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.”
“Man got into difficulty when he lifted his will against God’s. He gets out of trouble when he bows to the divine superiority, when he repents and says humbly: “God be merciful to me a sinner.” Man’s extremity then becomes God’s opportunity.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Man got to the top of the evolutionary heap by eating everything that got in his way. And if he wants to stay there, he had better keep doing it.”
“Man governs himself more by impulse than reason”
“Man, Grandma, what big hair you have."
"The better to style with, my dear.”
Source: Red Rider's Hood
“Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!”
Source: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time
“Man guesses, spirits act.”
Source: The Shadow of Kyoshi
“Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.”
Source: Tragic Sense of Life
“Man had freedom to choose the good, but this same freedom also allowed him to choose the bad. This is called moral freedom.”
“Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.”
“Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ... they're either one or the other! ... and inventors, the worst kind of jobholder! ... they stand condemned! ... the writer who doesn't pimp along, peacefully plagiarizing, who doesn't pump out the pop stuff, he's had it! ... everybody hates him!”
“Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough.”
Source: Killosophy
“Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.”
“Man has a dark side, yes, and it is called stupidity.”
Source: Power of Silence
“Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.”
“Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.”
“Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality-not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.”
“Man has a tyrant, ignorance. I voted for the demise of that particular tyrant. That particular tyrant has engendered royalty, which is authority based on falsehood, whereas science is authority based on truth. Man should be governed by science alone."
"And conscience," added the bishop.
"It's the same thing. Conscience is the quota of innate science we each have inside us.”
Source: Les Misérables
“MAN has a unique power in the universe beacuse he is the Master of Arts and Nature.”