" In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. "
Antonio Porchia, Voices
" Let us, then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait. "
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (1807 – 1882)
" He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. "
Bible, Proverbs, XLI, 32
" These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. "
Gilbert Highet
" Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. "
Arthur Schopenhauer German philosopher (1788 – 1860)
" Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal (May 1849) US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)
" Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to. "
Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985
" The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. "
Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)
" Brevity is the soul of lingerie. "
Dorothy Parker US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 – 1967)
" In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. "
Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 – 1900)
" Evil is obvious only in retrospect. "
Gloria Steinem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, 1983 US feminist (1934 – )
" As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you speak. "
Toni Morrison, American writer (1931-) US novelist (1931 – )
" Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. "
Theophrastus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers Greek botanist, humorist, & naturalist (300 BC – 287 BC)
" For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves – to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer – and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll amoung the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the “dim religious light” of some solemn cathedral? "
Lewis Carroll English author & recreational mathematician (1832 – 1898)
" The ends must justify the means. "
Matthew Prior, “Hans Carvel” (1701) English diplomat & poet (1664 – 1721)
" In the long run we are all dead. "
John Maynard Keynes English economist (1883 – 1946)
" Its embarrassing, you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on a Best Sellers List. "
Abbie Hoffman, In response to the success of his book; Steal this Book US radical activist (1936 – 1989)
" Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. "
William Hazlitt English essayist (1778 – 1830)
" The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet–a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school
" It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion. "
Robert Southey English poet (1774 – 1843)
" Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm. "
Jean Paul Richter German author (1763 – 1825)
" Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. "
Joseph Addison, The Spectator, September 26, 1712 English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 – 1719)
" Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done. "
George W. Bush 43rd President of US (1946 – )
" The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values. "
Norman Thomas US socialist politician (1884 – 1968)
" The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. "
Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
" I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)
" Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. "
Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)
" It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not. "
R. W. Griswold
" She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim… her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization. "
Sylvia Levi
" The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways – I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows. "
Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)
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