Quotes 5041 till 5060 of 6607.
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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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The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
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The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
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The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose!
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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The real way of living is to answer to one's wants.
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The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
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The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
Works (1913) IV, 315 -
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
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