312 quotes found
“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.”
“But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to...”
“Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.”
“What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?”
“The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.”
“Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking them from a cloister.”
“A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.”
“The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.”
“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.”
“To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.”
“I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.”
“A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve.”
“When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is...”
“if one of two or more joint wrongdoers has to pay all the damages, he cannot recover contribution from his fellows.”
“The first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the community, whether right or wrong.”
“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.”
“Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
“We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. .”
“Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rig...”
“I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.”
