M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.”
“Man has always aspired to reach the God tier, although he still has a long way to go. Just as the earliest bipeds compare to the modern Man, so does the present generation of Man compare to God.”
Source: Super Dense Crush Load: The Story of Man Redux
“Man has always been beset by worry, and the pressures of modern life have aggravated the problem . . . Many . . . are filled with a thousand anxieties. Bring them to Jesus Christ by faith. He will bring peace to your soul and your mind.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Man has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam's and Eve's problem, and it is our problem today. If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.”
“Man has always been drawn to the sea. But it's an unnatural setting for us, a place of great danger. Tides, currents, waves, wind, each presenting their own hazards, none of which can be ignored. The slightest lapse of judgment can be a mistake you might never recover from. But a good sailor doesn't fight against these elements. A good sailor works with them, using them to his advantage. While others less fortunate might be forever cast adrift, often in several pieces. He always comes home safely.”
“Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.”
“Man has always been his own most vexing problem.”
“Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!”
“Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.”
“Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.”
Source: The Summing Up
“Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose for it all. It's no doubt a gratifying view, but the universe may have a different opinion.”
Source: Seeker
“Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.”
“Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things aren't worse and of praising and thereby lifting the spirits of others.”
“Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.”
Source: Talk About America: 1951–1968
“Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.”
“Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.”
“Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.”
“Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination.”
“Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.”
“Man has become great through struggle”
Source: Hitler's Words
“Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.”
Source: Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down
“Man has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "contemporary," "conventional" or "ruthless." Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong or stark or courageous—that it is the philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about.”
“MAN HAS BEEN BLINDED BY HIS OWN GREED, SO HE MUST LEARN TO SEE THROUGH HUMBLE EYES.”
Source: Finding Jesus
“Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man-by choice; he has to hold his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues-by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.”
“Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he has to hold his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.”
Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It
“Man has been condemning women. Perhaps there is a reason; perhaps he was aware of some superiority in woman - the superiority of love. No logic can be higher than love, and no mind can be higher than the heart. But the mind can be very murderous; the mind can be very violent, and that's what the mind has done for centuries. Man has been beating women, repressing women, condemning women.”
“Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.”
“Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.”
“Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.”
“Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.”
Source: Mark Twain’s Book of Animals
“Man has been lent, not given, to life.”
“Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator.”
“Man has been reared by his errors: first he never saw himself other than imperfectly, second he attributed to himself imaginary qualities, third he felt himself in a false order of rank with animal and nature, fourth he continually invented new tables of values and for a time took each of them to be eternal and unconditional...If one deducts the effect of these four errors, one has also deducted away humanity, humaneness, and 'human dignity'.”
Source: A Nietzsche Reader
“Man has been slipping backward for ages. The more advanced we became the more primitive we grew.”
Source: Serendipidus
“Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus - all these jumpers without parachutes from a world of gods and heroes.”
“Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. …Love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. In freedom it gives itself unreservedly, abundantly, completely.”
“Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king.”
Source: Anarchism and Other Essays
“Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him.”
“Man has built walls around himself. Not to keep lies out, but to keep the truth hidden within.”
“Man has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous, less constant, less rational, less peaceful than he knows how to be, than he is fully capable of being. He has been led astray from the ways of peace and brotherhood by his addiction to concepts and attitudes of narrow nationalism, racial and religious bigotry, greed and lust for power.”
“Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
“Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.”
Source: Cell: A Novel
“Man has created death.”
“Man has created God out of fear of dying.”
Source: Burial Rites
“Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.”
“Man has discovered in nature the wonderful notion of that all-mighty being whose law he worships. Fundamentally in everyone there is the feeling for this all-mighty, which we call god (that is to say, the dominion of natural laws throughout the whole universe).”
Source: Secret Conversations, 1941-1944
“Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.”
“Man has emerged from dust of stars to contemplate the universe around him.”
Source: Wrinkles in Time