M Quotes
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“Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.”
“Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.”
“Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.”
“Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.”
Source: I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy
“Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“Man has rights because they are natural rights. They are grounded in the nature of man: the individual's capacity for conscious choice, the necessity for him to use his mind and energy to adopt goals and values, to find out about the world, to pursue his ends in order to survive and prosper, his capacity and need to communicate and interact with other human beings and to participate in the division of labor.”
“Man has risen so far above all other species that he competes in ways unique in nature. He fights by means of complicated weapons; he fights for ends remote in time.”
Source: Autobiography of values
“Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or he can choose otherwise. The choice is his responsibility, and his alone. There is no automatism that will carry him upward without choice or effort and there is no trend solely in the right direction. Evolution has no purpose; man must supply this for himself. The means to gaining right ends involve both organic evolution and human evolution, but human choice as to what are the right ends must be based on human evolution.”
Source: The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man
“Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor.”
“Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.”
“Man has slapped nature in the face. If you slap it, it will slap you back.”
“Man has sought to take from the natural world not only that which is necessary for his stability and survival, but often seeks to satisfy his perceived and ultimately false psychological needs, such as his need for self-display, luxuries and the like. Twenty percent of humanity consumes eighty percent of the world's wealth and is accountable for an equal percentage of the world's ecological catastrophes.”
“Man has subdued the world, but woman has subdued man. Mind and muscle have won his victories; love and loveliness have gained hers. No monarch has been so great, no peasant so lowly, that he has not been glad to lay his best at the feet of a woman.”
Source: Woman's Worth and Worthlessness: The Complement to
“Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.”
“Man has survived and prospered for more than 150,000 years on this planet without the help of use-by dates.”
“Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realise his wishes- Now that he can realise them, he must either change them or perish”
“Man has the choice of two methods of race improvement. He can breed from the best or he can eliminate the worst by segregation or sterilization.”
Source: The Passing of the Great Race or the Racial Basis of European History
“Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.”
“Man has the right . . . to play as he will . . . to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will.”
Source: To Perfect This Feast: A Performance Commentary on the Gnostic Mass
“Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.”
“Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.”
Source: The Way to Communal Harmony
“Man … has the wish not to die. This wish is originally identical with the instinct of self-preservation. … Subsequently, … this primary negative wish becomes the positive wish for a life, and a better life, after death. … [T]his wish involves the further wish for the certainty of its fulfilment. Reason can afford no such certainty. … Such a certainty requires an immediate personal assurance, a practical demonstration. This can only be given to me by … a dead person … rising again from the grave; and he must be no indifferent person, but … representative of all others, so that his resurrection also maybe the … guarantee of theirs. The resurrection of Christ is … the satisfied desire of man for an immediate certainty of his personal existence after death[.]”
Source: Essence of Christianity
“Man has this tendency to conclude that if he can’t explain or reproduce an occurrence, it must not be possible." - Uncle Henry”
Source: Working for Uncle Henry
“Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.”
“Man has to create marriage because man is afraid of the unknown. On all levels of life and existence, man has created substitutes: for love there is marriage; for real religion there are sects - they are like marriages. Hinduism, Mohammedanism, Christianity, Jainism - they are not real religion. Real religion has no name; it is like love. But because love is dangerous and you are so afraid of the future, you would like to have some security. You believe more in insurance companies than in life. That's why you have created marriage.”
“Man has to fight for what he wants, any way he can.”
“Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.”
“Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.”
Source: A Room with a View
“Man has to postulate weirdness,
before reaching the new science.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.”
“Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.”
Source: Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action
“Man has traditionally ruled the social sphere; feminism tells him to move over and share his power. But woman rules the sexual and emotional sphere, and there she has no rival. Victim ideology, a caricature of social history, blocks women from recognition of their dominance in the deepest, most important realm. ?”
Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
“Man has tried his suicide with bigotry and hate, but in the end he'll kill himself with nothing but his waste.”
“Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.”
Source: The Holy Spirit: Activating God's Power in Your Life
“Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the sculptor uses stone and wood, the painter his pigments, and the writer - words.”
“Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.”
Source: A Discourse Commemorative of Amos Lawrence: Delivered by Request of the Students, in the Chapel of Williams College, February 21, 1853
“Man has will, but woman has her way.”
“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.”
Source: The Diary of Sigmund Freud 1929-1939: A Record of the Final Decade
“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.”
Source: The Diary of Sigmund Freud 1929-1939: A Record of the Final Decade
“Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.”
“MAN HATES BEING TAUGHT.
STILL MAN LOVES TO LEARN.
(Hence SXILL was born.
Hence pedagogy exists.
To take teach out of learn)”
“Man hath a weary pilgrimage,
As through the word he wends;
On every stage, from youth to age,
Still discontent attends.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume
“Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.”
“Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.”
“Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless.
He speeds; we pass away!”
“Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.”
Source: Selected Poetry
“Man have to have friends even in hell.”
“Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.”