M Quotes
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“Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.”
Source: Specimen Days & Collect
“Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with an infinite potential, he retreats and battles the forces that make him inhuman. The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer.”
“Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment.”
Source: The Aristos
“Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.”
“Man is adept at navigating the globe and beyond - yet doubt finding his own destiny”
Source: Stress Diary Journal
“Man is afraid of death because he loves life.”
Source: Demons
“Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.”
“Man is afraid, the world is a strange world, and man wants to be secure, safe. In childhood the father protects, the mother protects. But there are many people, millions of them, who never grow beyond their childhoods. They remain stuck somewhere, and they still need a father and a mother. Hence God is called the Father or the Mother. They need a divine Father to protect them; they are not mature enough to be on their own. They need some security.”
“Man is alive by his hope.”
Source: HAPPY LIVING: A guide to understand yourself and your behaviours
“Man is all symmetry
Full of proportions, one limb to another,
And all to all the world besides;
Each part may call the farthest, brother;
For head with foot hath private amity
And both with moons and tides.”
“Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.”
“Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.”
Source: Essays, Dialogues, and Thoughts (Operette Morali and Pensieri) of Giacomo Leopardi
“Man is almost mad-mad because he is seeking something which he has already got; mad because he's not aware of who he is; mad because he hopes, desires and then ultimately, feels frustrated. Frustration is bound to be there because you cannot find yourself by seeking; you are already there. The seeking has to stop, the search has to drop.”
“Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.”
Source: Sex & Character
“Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.”
Source: The Emotions: Outline of a Theory
“Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.”
“Man is always exploited through fear.”
“Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe. But he must give up this vain pretense, this petty provincial way of thinking and judging.”
Source: An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture
“Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.”
Source: In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality
“Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.”
“Man is always on the way.”
“Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.”
“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“Man is always seeking a power, a power to overcome something or destroy something; and therefore he is not living in the awareness of God, because in the realization of the presence of God there is no need to overcome, to destroy, or to do anything.”
Source: The Joel Goldsmith Reader
“Man is always seeking for more but the most important thing he needs is in his possession.”
“Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself known to himself from the other side of the world and he looks from the horizon
toward himself to recover his inner being.”
Source: The Philosophy of Existentialism: Selected Essays
“Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process; he is not merely an extant life, but is, within that life, endowed with possibilities through the freedom he possesses to make of himself what he will by the activities on which he decides.”
Source: Man in the Modern Age (Routledge Revivals)
“Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.”
“Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.”
“Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.”
“Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.”
“Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.”
Source: The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays
“Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.”
Source: Six Months in Italy
“Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.”
“Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.”
Source: Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories
“Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.”
“Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.”
“Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order to
live at all.”
Source: Escape from Evil
“Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods
“Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.”
“Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.”
“Man is an Animal, formidable both from his Passions and his Reason; his Passions often urging him to great Evils, and his Reason furnishing Means to achieve them. To train this Animal, and make him amenable to Order; to inure him to a Sense of Justice and Virtue, to withhold him from ill Courses by Fear, and encourage him in his Duty by Hopes; in short, to fashion and model him for Society, hath been the Aim of civil and religious Institutions; and, in all Times, the Endeavour of good and wise Men. The aptest Method for attaining this End, hath been always judged a proper Education.”
“Man is an ape with possibilities.”
“Man is an appearance, God is a reality.”
“Man is an arrogant being, a part of him could never forget he is the existence itself.”
“Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.”
Source: The Adding Machine: Selected Essays
“Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.”
“Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.”
Source: The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny
“Man is an end in himself.”
“Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else.”