Man is no star, but a quick coalOf mortal fire:Who blows it not, nor doth controlA faint desire, The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert
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Quote:- Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
Author:- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Man is not merely born to make money. But to fulfill is mission.
Author:- Lailah Gifty Akita
Category:- motivational
Quote:- Man is part of the mystery he tries to solve.
Author:- Lailah Gifty Akita
Category:- motivational
Quote:- Man is the measure of all things', said the Sophist Protagora (c. 485-410 B.C.). By that he meant that the question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a person's needs.
Sophie's World
Author:- Jostein Gaarder
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Man is the only creation that can survive no matter how the condition is
Author:- UMAR SHUAIBU SABO
Category:- science
Quote:- Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Author:- Albert Camus
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.
Author:- Alexander Graham Bell
Category:- time
Quote:- Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
Author:- Jacob Bronowski
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified.–
Author:- Neville Goddard
Category:- science
Quote:- Man of the letters is the one, who instantaneously answers to our most controversial question which has been sitting in our heart from quite a long time.
Author:- Gautam Bharthry
Category:- best
Quote:- Man perpetuates his own laws to keep order in a mandatory constant step ahead of the chaos.
Author:- Alistair Akrofi-Mantey
Category:- Life
Quote:- Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
On the Origin of Species
Author:- Charles Darwin
Category:- science
Quote:- Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Author:- Alan Wilson Watts
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.
Life Is Worth Living
Author:- Fulton J. Sheen
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear to be wholly forgotten by it. Disgusted at the guilt or absurdity of Mankind, the Misanthrope flies from it: He resolves to become an Hermit, and buries himself in the Cavern of some gloomy Rock. While Hate inflames his bosom, possibly He may feel contented with his situation: But when his passions begin to cool; when Time has mellowed his sorrows, and healed those wounds which He bore with him to his solitude, think you that Content becomes his Companion? Ah! no, Rosario. No longer sustained by the violence of his passions, He feels all the monotony of his way of living, and his heart becomes the prey of Ennui and weariness. He looks round, and finds himself alone in the Universe: The love of society revives in his bosom, and He pants to return to that world which He has abandoned. Nature loses all her charms in his eyes: No one is near him to point out her beauties, or share in his admiration of her excellence and variety. Propped upon the fragment of some Rock, He gazes upon the tumbling waterfall with a vacant eye, He views without emotion the glory of the setting Sun. Slowly He returns to his Cell at Evening, for no one there is anxious for his arrival; He has no comfort in his solitary unsavoury meal: He throws himself upon his couch of Moss despondent and dissatisfied, and wakes only to pass a day as joyless, as monotonous as the former.
The Monk
Author:- Matthew Gregory Lewis
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp. ... Like John Donne, man lies in a close prison, yet it is dear to him. Like Donne's, his thoughts at times overleap the sun and pace beyond the body. If I term humanity a slime mold organism it is because our present environment suggest it. If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden reaches man arose. The green world is his sacred center. In moments of sanity he must still seek refuge there. ... If I dream by contrast of the eventual drift of the star voyagers through the dilated time of the universe, it is because I have seen thistledown off to new worlds and am at heart a voyager who, in this modern time, still yearns for the lost country of his birth.
The Invisible Pyramid
Author:- Loren Eiseley
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Man, consider first what the matter is (which you propose to do), then your own nature also, what it is able to bear. If you are a wrestler, look at your shoulders, your thighs, your loins: for different men are naturally formed for different things.
Discourses and Selected Writings of Epictetus
Author:- Epictetus Discourses
Category:- philosophy