M Quotes
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“Man is a slow, sloppy, and brilliant thinker; computers are fast, accurate, and stupid.”
“Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.”
“Man is a social animal formed to please in society.”
“MAN is a social animal, gregarious by nature, and finds his greatest sense of security and satisfaction in the company of others who share his interests and attitudes. Of all the many groups into which humans have collected themselves, of all the many tribes, clans, organizations, and societies throughout history, none has been so powerful, so far-reaching, or more universal than the church.”
Source: Peace with God: The Secret of Happiness
“Man is a social animal.”
“Man is a social being who works independently, creatively and consciously.”
Source: Giving Priority to Ideological Work is Essential for Accomplishing Socialism
“Man is a social being with independence, creativity and consciousness.”
Source: Socialism is a Science
“Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.”
“Man is a spiritual being, a soul, and at some period of his life everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite. . . . There is something within him which urges him to rise above himself, to control his environment, to master the body and all things physical and live in a higher and more beautiful world.”
“Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.”
“Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.”
“Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has noprescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Man is a substance clad in shadows.”
Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues
“Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being, and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.”
“Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.”
“Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.”
Source: Les Belles Images
“Man is a thief, an impudent thief! He steals honey from bees, eggs from chickens, milk from cows and life from the God!”
“Man is a thinking animal.”
“Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.”
Source: Voices in Time
“Man is a thinking being. The way he thinks is related to society, politics, economics, and history and is also related to very general and universal categories and formal structures. But thought is something other than societal relations.”
“Man is a thinking being; what and how we think largely determines what we are and what we will become.”
“Man is a thought-adventurer.”
Source: Kangaroo
“Man is a tireless traveller wandering in the dark valleys of his past!”
“Man is a tool-making animal”
“Man is a tool-using animal.”
“Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.”
“Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.”
“Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot fulfill. We have expectations of a just and moral world. Man requires meaning in a meaningless world.”
“Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation”
Source: Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective
“Man is a transitional being, he is not final; for in him and high beyond him ascend the radiant degrees which climb to a divine supermanhood. The step from man towards superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth's evolution. There lies our destiny and the liberating key to our aspiring, but troubled and limited human existence — inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner Spirit and the logic of Nature's process.”
“Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power. We must snatch the present moment, and employ it well, without too much solicitude for the future, and content ourselves with reflecting that our part is performed. He that waits for an opportunity to do much at once, may breathe out his life in idle wishes, and regret, in the last hour, his useless intentions and barren zeal.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author
“Man is a tree of life but a woman is a flower.”
“Man is a true Narcissus; he delights to see his own image everywhere; and he spreads himself underneath the universe, like the amalgam behind the glass.”
Source: Les Affinités électives
“Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.”
“Man is a unique individual. He can never be put in a system where he becomes just another notch. Another nail.”
“Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].”
“Man is a universe within himself.”
“Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.”
“Man is a very strange creature! He wants to be on a floating ship in the sea while sitting on the shore; and while sitting on the ship, he wants to be sitting on a fixed bench on the shore!”
“Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.”
Source: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash
“Man is a weak and miserable animal until the light of God burns in his soul.”
Source: On Life and Essays on Religion
“Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.”
“Man is a wolf to man.
[Lat., Homo homini lupus.]”
“Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.”
Source: Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney
“Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal!”
Source: The Blithedale Romance
“Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.”
“Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason”
Source: Dynamics of Faith
“Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.”
Source: Leaves of Hypnos (extracts): And Lettera Amorosa
“Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.”