Quotes about t
travel sacrifice comfort
For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort. Aldous Huxley
truth literature platitudes
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
two sorrow unnecessary
...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
thinking compassion tyrants
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
thinking oneself
... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
thankful gratitude appreciation
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
thinking evil world
The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
thread form strings
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
thinking self order
One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and self-conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but subject to the laws of nature and under orders to keep on marching, through irreversible time, through a world wholly indifferent to our well-being, toward decrepitude and the certainty of death. The remaining two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
trying boat sinking
Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.
teaching justice unjust
Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history . Albert Pike
teaching temples dogma
Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion.
tailors newton elegance
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's. Albert Einstein
theory practicals solutions
The most practical solution is a good theory.
teacher jesus advice
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
teacher science men
If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.
time war strive
Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
truth statistics duty
The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.
two miracle littles
There are actually two approaches to reside your daily life. One is as if absolutely nothing is really a miracle. The other is as if every little thing is a wonder
tyranny all-time assured
The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.
thinking order race
Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive. Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.
thinking trying different
If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.
thinking action problem
The same thinking and actions that created our problems cannot be used to solve them.
two soul body
I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things
time anger men
The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.
time war confusion
When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
taken artist evil
Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
tyrants violence moral
Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.
thinking firsts gravity
The gravity is the first thing which you don't think
thinking boundaries conditions
We are boxed in by the boundary conditions of our thinking
thinking people mind
There is no scientific antidote, only education. You've got to change the way people think. I am not interested in disarmament talks between nations . . . What I want to do is to disarm the mind. After that, everything else will automatically follow. The ultimate weapon for such mental disarmament is international education.
tragedy illusion existence
The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.
thinking purpose highest
Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose.