In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
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