This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.
We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!
Henry David Thoreau
The universe is wider than our views of it.
One farmer says to me, You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with; and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.
Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.
Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.
Hermann Goering
Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.
He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.
Johann von Goethe
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.
While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.
It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
Mastery passes often for egotism.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
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