M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.”
“Man is a bad animal.”
Source: The Process
“Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.”
Source: Minority Report
“Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.”
Source: Minority Report
“Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.”
Source: Five speeches delivered by the Rt. Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., 1860-1864. Edited, with a preface, by a member of the University of Oxford [i.e. the Hon. Frederick Lygon, afterwards Earl Beauchamp].
“Man is a being in search of meaning.”
“Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.”
Source: The Disorderly Knights: The Lymond Chronicles Book Three
“Man is a being who hardly recognizes himself and forgets himself very easily.”
“Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.”
Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms: The Soul of Man
“Man is a biped without feathers.”
“Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.”
“Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.”
“Man is a bridge between the two worlds - the visible and the invisible.”
“Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.”
Source: DON JUAN
“Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.”
Source: The Black Hole of Auschwitz
“Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the most complete epitome.”
“Man is a child of his environment”
“Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.”
“Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude.”
“Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.”
“Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.”
“Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.”
“Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.”
“Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.”
“Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less, a slight variation in the composition of air, the precise suitability of food, makes all the difference between health and sickness; between life and death.”
Source: The Story of the Heavens
“Man is a creature inescapably, and often unhappily, divided; and the divisions within him recurrently impel the use of his imagination to make new syntheses. The creative consequences of his imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.”
Source: The Dynamics of Creation
“Man is a Creature of a wilful Head,
And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.”
“Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.”
Source: Debt of Honor
“Man is a creature of indeterminate nature.”
Source: Oration on the Dignity of Man
“Man is a creature of light and air, and I should therefore recommend little or no clothing when training.”
“Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.”
“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.”
Source: Virginibus Puerisque
“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.”
“Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.”
Source: Three Complete Novels
“Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.”
“Man is a culture, nothing but a culture! Question your culture! Just like monkeys picking lice from their skin, get rid of the stupidities in your culture!”
“Man is a degeneration of what he was.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.”
“Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.”
Source: The tender carnivore and the sacred game
“Man is a DOG, he keeps running after PUSSIES.”
“Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.”
“Man is a double being and can take, now the god's-eye view of things, now the brute's-eye view.”
Source: Ends and Means
“Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and his life is sweet.”
“Man is a fallen star till he is right with heaven: he is out of order with himself and all around him till he occupies his true place in relation to God. When he serves God, he has reached that point where he doth serve himself best, and enjoys himself most. It is man's honour, it is man's joy, it is man's heaven, to live unto God.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 31: Sermons 1816-1876
“Man is a fantastic animal; he was born of fantasy, he is the son of "the mad woman of the house." And universal history is the gigantic and thousand-year effort to go on putting order into that huge, disorderly, anti-animal fantasy. What we call reason is no more than fantasy put into shape. Is there anything in the world more fantastic than that which is the most rational? Is there anything more fantastic than the mathematical point, and the infinite line, and, in general, all mathematics and all physics? Is there a more fantastic fancy than what we call "justice" and the other thing that we call "happiness"?”
Source: An Interpretation of Universal History
“Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.”
Source: Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts
“Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.”
“Man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts, a myriad selves, a continual becoming but never being, a will-of-the-wisp flitting of ghosts in ghostland.”
Source: Jack London Six Pack