She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

Herbert Read

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

Arnold Bennett

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?

Albert Claude

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

David Hume

There's no guarantee of disaster-free in any world religion,but love, faith and knowledge give men hope and willpower.

Toba Beta

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Deepak Chopra

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

James Baldwin

There's no ceiling on effort!

Harvey C. Fruehauf

I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.

Eddie Van Halen

This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, Hollo

First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first one is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.

Bertrand Russell