If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.
Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race we kept them free we kept the faith.
Ronald Reagan
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
Albert Einstein
But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.
Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Seize the time... Live now! Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard
I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most.
Mark Twain
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Marshall McLuhan
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
Arthur C. Clarke
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Aldous Huxley
When I examine myself and my methods of thought I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. . . . Man is the more man -- that is, the more divine -- the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Se
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.
Paul Newman
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Abraham Lincoln
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Albert Camus
Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above....Every secret of a writer
Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biogr
I never let schooling interfere with my education.
It's not the load that breaks you down - it's the way you carry it.
Lou Holtz
The first mistake are theirs who commit them, the second are theirs that permit them.
Proverb
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
Octavio Paz
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
Marquis de Sade
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
John Ruskin
It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
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