M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.”
“Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.”
“Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body; the angels are pure spirits, herein nearer to God, only that they are created and finite in all respects, free from decay, free from the power of death, whereas God is infinite and uncreated.”
“Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.”
Source: Autobiography of values
“Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.”
Source: Moby Dick (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)
“Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.”
“Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.”
“Man is a moral being.”
“Man is a mortal being.”
“Man is a multi-sensorial being. Occasionally he verbalizes … and we must seriously examine the implications of the fact that man does not communicate by word alone.”
“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
“Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.”
“Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.”
“Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world.”
“Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over!”
“Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a peculiar mode of Being, a living atom within it, or, rather, a cell that, if sufficiently open to itself and its own mystery, can also experience the mystery, the will, the pain, and the hope of the world.”
“Man is a perpetually wanting animal.”
Source: On Dominance, Self-Esteem, and Self-Actualization
“Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.”
“Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.”
“Man is a plant, and its gardener. But it is only his soil that lets him rise, and it is only gardening himself, that may allow him to bear fruit.”
“Man is a play station whereas a woman will always remain at an emotion station.”
Source: Adventus
“Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!”
“Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works
“Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics.”
Source: Among the carrion crows
“Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.”
Source: Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic
“Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.”
Source: The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates
“Man is a product of nature, a part of the Universe. The Universe is operated under exact natural laws. Man is a product of millions of years of evolution. He adapts himself to the laws of nature or he perishes.”
“Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.”
“Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.”
“Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favour of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it, though I have searched in many countries spread over three continents.”
“Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.”
“Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim explicitly that man is a rational animal. His reason for this view was … that some people can do sums. … It is in virtue of the intellect that man is a rational animal. The intellect is shown in various ways, but most emphatically by mastery of arithmetic. The Greek system of numerals was very bad, so that the multiplication table was quite difficult, and complicated calculations could only be made by very clever people.”
“Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is .”
Source: The Nemesis of Faith
“Man is a reasoning Animal.”
“Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.”
“Man is a rebel, and a rebel is naturally in confusion. He is in conflict with every other rebel. For a rebel by his very nature is selfish. He is seeking his own good and not the good of others.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.”
“Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.”
“Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.”
Source: Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God
“Man is a restless creature, nomadic at heart.”
“Man is a robot with defects.”
“Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel
“Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.”
“Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“Man is a sad mammal that combs its hair.”
“Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.”
Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.”
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann
“Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape, he is the shaper of the landscape.”
“MAN is a slave only to his own mental lethargy.”
Source: The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems