Quotes 441 till 460 of 11531.
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Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.
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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
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Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
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Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
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My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
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