Quotes 17461 till 17480 of 25274.
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The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.
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The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.
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The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.
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The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.
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The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.
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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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The fossil fuel industry is destroying our planet and everything that we love.
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The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer.
Source: Cosmos (1980) -
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
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The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying
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The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.
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The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
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The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.
Source: Two essays: On anger, New men, new women : some thoughts on nonviolence -
The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
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The freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Source: From George Washington to Officers of the Army, 15-03-1783 -
The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.
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