Quotes 481 till 500 of 700.
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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
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Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.
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Taking this view of the matter, the Anarchists contend that defence is not an essential of the State, but that aggression is.
Source: Address to Unitarian Ministers -
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
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Taoist philosophy... is essentially monistic.... Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000) -
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
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The attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.
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The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
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The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.
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The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
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The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river is yet absolutely fresh, just from the source. He knows the truth, but he does not know that he knows.... His knowledge is not yet aware. It is innocent. It is simply there, as a matter of fact. And he is not separate from his knowledge; he is his knowledge. He has not mind, he has simple being.
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The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.
Source: On War (1832) -
The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.
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The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any egoconsciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.
Source: The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man (1933) -
The fact of the matter is I'm 21 now. I stay home. I feed my dogs. I don't really go out. I work.
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The fact of the matter is that the Internet has brought together millions of people who trust one another for reasons that are unknown.
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The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.
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