637 quotes found
“Sound the tocsin of national peril and hordes of well-meaning folk with nothing much to do always materialize from nowhere. They itch to meddle in great matters of which their comprehension is usua...”
“Human beings feel an obligation to have a definate opinion on issues they can never truly know. They need to learn to be satisfied with "I don't know".”
“I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.”
“Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!”
“the impossibility of being humanall too humanthis breathingin and outout and inthese punksthese cowardsthese championsthese mad dogs of glorymoving this little bit of light towardusimpossibly.”
“When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encountering a thousand toils and dangers in the process, has, in the end, no further object than to raise...”
“Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.”
“Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts.”
“schade dass die Natur nur einen Mensch aus dir schuf / denn zum wurdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff" (loose translation: nature, alas, made only one being out of you although there was mat...”
“Theres something about taking the cart back instead of leaving it in the parking lotIts significantBecause somebody has to take them inAnd if you know that, and you do it for that one guy, you do s...”
“People grow, but they don't change.”
“They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men.”
“Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure.”
“No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.”
“To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.”
“If you could have confidence in nature you would not have to fear. It would keep you up. Creative is nature. Rapid. Lavish. Inspirational. It shapes leaves. It rolls the waters of the earth. Man is...”
“We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.”
“I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.”
“The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of humanity condemned ultimately to perish from cold is not worth troubling about. If you...”
“As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.”
