Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.
We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.
The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the least.
Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.
The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine.
I wake up wondering if I know we're near mountains because of memory or because of something in the air.
Just consider how terrible the day of your death will be Others will go on speaking and you will not be able to argue back
There is a European Central Bank, of course, established and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely the same but similar.
The dollar went up some eighty percent in real terms as I recall now or something like that - from '80 to '85.
The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.
To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.
But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
I've always wanted to put a little solarium on the back of my house. You know. Glass.
You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels.
I keep a night light on because my room is so full at night, I can't get to sleep!
I've always been interested in past lives, because they're earmarks of what creates us.
