Quotes 4521 till 4540 of 5914.
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
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The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
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The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years pass by us, one by one, little distinguishable from each other. But when the intellectual sun of our life is risen, we take due note of joy and sorrow.
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The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
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The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.
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The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
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The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one
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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
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The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time....
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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.
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The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
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The quarterback is the most vulnerable one on the field. He's in an awkward position a lot of times when he throws the ball. So he does have to be protected. You lose a quarterback, you're in trouble. I don't know if they can make it too safe. I think health becomes an issue.
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The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
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