33 quotes found
“Air is no less heavy because we do not detect its weight.”
“In the savage horde the most vagabond, as well as in the most civilized nations of Europe, man is only what he is made to be by external circumstances; he is necessarily elevated by his equals; he ...”
“In monetary parlance, there are three types of people - who know how to make money from money (rich); who earn and spend (middle class); and those who dont know either and remain poor. Their percen...”
“But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, trut...”
“Rich is my word for someone who can afford to make choices, who has enough resources to do more than merely survive.”
“If man--if each one of us--abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to leading a trivial existence in a technological civilization, with greater adapta...”
“In my early teens, [my grandfather] would sometimes stomp around his living room, where he used to shave towards mid-day with bowl, brush and open razor, deriding my ignorance and mocking the made-...”
“We see the puppets dancing on their miniature stage, moving up and down as the strings pull them around, following the prescribed course of their various little parts. We learn to understand the lo...”
“We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.”
“Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.”
“People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.”
“What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weake...”
