Quotes 1901 till 1920 of 2226.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
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To see God everywhere is to see Him nowhere.
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To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money.
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To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
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To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.
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To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
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To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good in themselves, and capable of a good use. But to overvalue riches, to give them a place in the heart which God did not design them to fill, this is covetous
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To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
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Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.
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Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.
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True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
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Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
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Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
The Problem of Pain (1940)
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