Quotes 7121 till 7140 of 10234.
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The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.
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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipulated and the really extraordinary creative possibilities. For me the essential basis of video is the movement - something that exists at the moment and changes in the next moment.
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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.
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The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
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The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
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The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
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The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked so well that they formed a very lucrative industry fairly quickly. But what worked for that demographic absolutely did not work for most girls and women.
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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
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The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
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The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
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The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
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The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.
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The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.
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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
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