Quotes 821 till 840 of 1020.
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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
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We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask some fundamental questions. How can we provide a dignified life for ourselves and future generations while preserving and protecting the global commons - the atmosphere, the oceans and the ecosystems that support us?
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We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
Letter to Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1830) -
We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.
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We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness.
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We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
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We never know the true value of friends. While they live, we are too sensitive of their faults; when we have lost them, we only see their virtues.
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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
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We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
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What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?
PENN Address (2004) -
What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?
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