Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends. On the Origin of Species
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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
Quote:- Man, if you are anything, both walk alone and talk to yourself, and do not hide yourself in the chorus. Examine a little at last, look around, stir yourself up, that you may know who you are.
Author:- Epictetus Discourses
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Man, in his blindness, is quite satisfied with himself, but heartily dislikes the circumstances and situations of his life. He feels this way, not knowing that the cause of his displeasure lies not in the condition nor the person with whom he is displeased, but in his very self he likes so much. Not realizing that he surrounds himself with the true image of himself and that what he is, that only he can see, he is shocked when he discovers that it has always been his own deceitfulness that made him suspicious of others…
Imagining Creates
Author:- Neville Goddard
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Author:- Ken Kesey
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Man! What are you? Who are you? Just a shadow in this universe! You always forget this and the truth will always remind you what you really are! Do you want to be a real thing, not just a shadow? Improve your science ten thousand times; improve your science hundred thousand times! If you can’t improve your science, you will remain as a miserable shadow!
Author:- Mehmet Murat ildan
Category:- science
Quote:- Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.
Author:- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Category:- time
Quote:- Man's beliefs are so powerful, so strong; take them away and he is suddenly nothing.-Emit Eht
Emit Eht
Author:- Ratna Srivastava
Category:- motivational
Quote:- Man's instinct is to find a way to live, but who wants to be the last to die?
Author:- Mitch Albom
Category:- hope
Quote:- Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
Author:- Auguste Rodin
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action. He cannot obtain his food without a knowledge of food and of the way to obtain it. He cannot dig a ditch – or build a cyclotron – without a knowledge of his aim and of the means to achieve it. To remain alive, he must think. But to think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call ‘human nature,’ the open secret you live with, yet dread to name, is the fact that man is a being of volitional consciousness. Reason does not work automatically; thinking is not a mechanical process; the connections of logic are not made by instinct. The function of your stomach, lungs, or heart is automatic; the function of your mind is not. In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade that effort. But you are not free to escape from your nature, from the fact that reason is your means of survival – so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or not to be’ is the question ‘to think or not to think.’ . . . Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. . . Man must obtain his knowledge and choose his actions by a process of thinking, which nature will not force him to perform. Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history (pages 1012-1013).
Author:- Ayn Rand
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- MANAGE YOUR MOOD: Name 1 thing that surprised you today...Name 1 thing that moved you...Name 1 thing that inspired you...
Author:- Gino Norris
Category:- motivational,inspiration
Quote:- Manage your time doing something productive and in time you will be happy to see what all you have achieved
Author:- RJ Yolande Mendes
Category:- Life,inspiration,motivational
Quote:- Manage your time doing something productive and in time you will be happy to see what all you have achieved.
Author:- RJ Yolande Mendes
Category:- Life,inspiration,motivational