Quotes 561 till 580 of 723.
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
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The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgement to have safely traveled from star to star.
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994) -
The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
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The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert (1848) p.184 -
There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
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There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.
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There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.
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There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
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There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
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There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self.
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