M Quotes
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“Man is a food-dependent creature. If you don't feed him, he will die. If you feed him improperly, part of him will die.”
“Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calendar. We are not so unique as we should like to believe.”
“Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it.”
“Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable and possible, individual lives may be gloriously diversified, uniquely individualized, and yet socially useful; or, these are mere phrases, snares to catch gulls, soothing syrup for our troubled souls.”
“Man is a fugitive from nature.”
Source: Meditations on Hunting
“Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games.”
“Man is a gaming animal.”
Source: Essays of Elia
“Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.”
Source: Essays of Elia
“Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.”
“Man is a genius when he is dreaming.”
“Man is a glorious and unique species of animal. The species originated by evolution.... Future evolution could raise man to superb heights as yet hardly glimpsed, but it will not automatically do so. As far as can now be foreseen, evolutionary degeneration is at least as likely in our future as is further progress.The only way to ensure a progressive evolutionary future for mankind is for man himself to take a hand in the process. Although much further knowledge is needed, it is unquestionably possible for man to guide his own evolution (within limits) along desirable lines. But the great weight of the most widespread...beliefs and institutions is against even attempting such guidance. ["Man's evolutionary future," 1960, p. 134.]”
“Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.”
“Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.”
Source: Stories from the Country of Lost Borders
“Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. ... The cunningest hunger is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other. That is the economy of nature, but with it all there is not sufficient account taken of the works of man. There is no scavenger that eats tin cans, and no wild thing leaves a like disfigurement on the forest floor.”
Source: Essential Mary Austin: A Selection of Mary Austin's Best Writing
“Man is a greater miracle than any god he ever invented.”
“Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies
“Man is a gregarious animal. He's not supposed to live in isolation. He should actually live in a community, but a community does not necessarily have to be a city. There's all the evidence in the world that the building of cities is one of the worst mistakes that mankind has ever made: For both physical and mental health we've got to be close to Mother Earth.”
“Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.”
Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia
“Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation of many generations (or even societies) over a long period of time. By contrast with humankind, every individual animal can and does do what for the most part it might do, or what any other of its kind might or can do that lives at the same time.”
“Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.”
“Man is a hostage to the cage of cultural programming and the mass hallucination of the propagandist’s narrative illusion.”
“Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally a desire for Him.”
Source: For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy
“Man is a hybrid. From a lower order we have been genetically manipulated by advanced intelligences into what we are. Now that in itself is dynamite for god's sake.”
“Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.”
“Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse”
“Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy. ... I am absolutely amazed to discover myself on this rock ball rotating around a spherical fire. It's a very odd situation. And the more I look at things I cannot get rid of the feeling that existence is quite weird.”
“Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.”
“Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.”
“Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions.”
“Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought.”
Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960
“Man is a luxury-loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.”
“Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.”
“Man is a machine of remembrance; all we do is to remember things because life flies fast like a swallow; reality immediately disappears!”
“Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if any at all. What we have to study, therefore, is not psychology-for that applies only to a developed man-but mechanics. Man is not only a machine but a machine which works very much below the standard it would be capable of maintaining if it were working properly.”
“Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can know that he is a machine, and having fully realized this, he may find the ways to cease to be a machine. First of all, what man must know is that he is not one; he is many. He has not one permanent and unchangeable “I” or Ego. He is always different. One moment he is one, another moment he is another, the third moment he is a third, and so on, almost without end.”
“Man is a magnet, and every line and dot and detail of his experiences come by his own attraction.”
Source: Life Power and How to Use It
“Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.”
Source: Notes of a journey through France and Italy ...
“Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature”
“Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes the Creator loves him; has passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks he listens. Isn't it a quaint idea.”
“Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .”
“Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.”
“Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.”
“Man is a masterpiece of his Maker.”
“Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum”
“Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.”
Source: Rabbit Redux
“Man is a measure of his mind.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Man is a megalomaniac among animals-if he sees mountains he will try to imitate them by pyramids, and if he sees some grand process like evolution, and thinks it would be at all possible for him to be in on that game, he would irreverently have to have his whack at that too. That daring megalomania of his-has it not brought him to his present place?”
“Man is a messenger who forgot the message.”
Source: I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology
“Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.”
Source: The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, of Hohenheim, Called Paracelsus the Great: Hermetic medicine and hermetic philosophy
“Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.”
Source: Festus: a poem