The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence.
Today's Quote: Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.
To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
Good judgment comes by way of experience, which comes of bad judgment.
She walks to a table She walk to table She is walking to a table She walk to table now What difference does it make What difference it make In Nature, no completeness No sentence really complete thought Language, like woman, Look best when free, undr...
Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.
has a feeling for the central order of things. He can detect it in the simplicity of natural laws. We may take it that he felt this simplicity very strongly and directly during his discovery of the theory of relativity. Admittedly, this is a far cry ...
When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.
It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.
We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
Life is agid, life is fulgid. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least of us make the most of. Life is a burgeoning, a quickening of the dim primordial urge in the murky wastes of time.
Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference.
Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.
A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
