A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life.
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A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life.
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What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . .a form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.
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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
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A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.
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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
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The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
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We're like a little family. I call them my cousins even though we have no relation. But we're really close.
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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
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Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of her (or his) own conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life.
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The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
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History is a vast early warning system.
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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
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Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?
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We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.
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It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
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War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
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Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
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Deliberate cruelty to our defenseless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.
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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who 'come out' together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.
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The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.
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We will not have peace by afterthought.
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Laughter is inner jogging.
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The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.
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Loquacity and lying are cousins.
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I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
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How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.
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