A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
(William Shakespeare)
A peace is of the nature
Saturday 20 April 2013
A peace is of the nature
A peace is of the nature
Friday 19 April 2013
Not everything that counts can be counted
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Not everything that counts can be counted
I do not believe that civilization....
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
I do not believe that civilization....
Describe the truth
Stupidity and genius
Two things are infinite
Two things are infinite the universe and human stupidity and I’m not sure about the former.
Two things are infinite
I know not with what weapons
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
I know not with what weapons
Any man who can drive safely
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Any man who can drive safely
The hardest thing in the world
Mathematical difficulties
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Mathematical difficulties
In order to form an immaculate member
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
In order to form an immaculate member
You see
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
You see
Wednesday 17 April 2013
Anyone who has never made a mistake
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Anyone who has never made a mistake
You have to learn the rules of the game
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
You have to learn the rules of the game
The important thing is not to stop questioning
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
The important thing is not to stop questioning
All these primary impulses
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.
All these primary impulses
I am enough of an artist
Logic will get you from A to B
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Logic will get you from A to B
The gift of fantasy
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
The gift of fantasy
To raise new questions
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
To raise new questions
The grand aim of all science
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
The grand aim of all science
No amount of experimentation
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
No amount of experimentation
Most people say
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Most people say
It stands to the everlasting credit of science
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science
It is the supreme art
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
It is the supreme art
It has become appallingly obvious
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
It has become appallingly obvious
All religions, arts and sciences
One of the strongest motives
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
One of the strongest motives
Technological progress
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Technological progress
The whole of science is nothing
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
The whole of science is nothing
Science is a wonderful thing
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.
Science is a wonderful thing
Science without religion
Tuesday 16 April 2013
Peace cannot be kept by force
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Peace cannot be kept by force
We still do not know
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
We still do not know
Sunday 14 April 2013
Education is what remains
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Education is what remains
The only thing that interferes
No, this trick won’t work
No, this trick won’t work..! How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
No, this trick won’t work
A man need to be happy
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
A man need to be happy
Saturday 13 April 2013
Simple as possible
Only one who devotes himself
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Only one who devotes himself
We can’t solve problems
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
We can’t solve problems
Success in life
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Success in life
Fear of death
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.
Fear of death
Intellectual growth
Sometimes one pays most
There are two ways to live
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
There are two ways to live
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger
The value of a man
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
The value of a man
If people are good only because they fear punishment
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
If people are good only because they fear punishment
If you can’t explain it simply
The world is a dangerous place to live
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
The world is a dangerous place to live
The so-called Pythagoreans
The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.
The so-called Pythagoreans
Our account does not rob mathematicians of their science
Our account does not rob mathematicians of their science, by disproving the actual existence of the infinite in the direction of increase, in the sense of the untraceable. In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it. They postulate any that the finite straight line may be produced as far as they wish.
Our account does not rob mathematicians of their science
Madness is badness of spirit
Where some people are very wealthy
Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.
Where some people are very wealthy
Liberty and equality
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Liberty and equality
Evil for evil
Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.
Evil for evil
Democracy arose from men's thinking
Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Democracy arose from men's thinking
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors
The most perfect political community
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
The most perfect political community
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes
The best friend is the man
We must no more ask
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
We must no more ask
The beauty of the soul shines
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
The beauty of the soul shines
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children
At his best man is the noblest of all animals
At his best man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
At his best man is the noblest of all animals
There are things which seem incredible
There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics.
There are things which seem incredible
What it lies in our power to do
Life is full of chances
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may…meet with great misfortunes.
Life is full of chances
Friday 12 April 2013
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation
Good man and a good citizen
Criticism is something
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Criticism is something
Without friends
You will never do anything in this world without courage
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
You will never do anything in this world without courage
Whosoever is delighted in solitude
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude
The one exclusive sign
The moral virtues
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
The moral virtues
The virtue of justice consists
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
The virtue of justice consists
Tuesday 9 April 2013
The state is a creation of nature
The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.
The state is a creation of nature
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness
Monday 8 April 2013
Most important relationship
Most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Most important relationship
A little kingdom I possess
A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; and very hard the task I find of governing it well.
A little kingdom I possess
We are what we repeatedly do
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
We are what we repeatedly do
Whatever we learn to do
Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.
Whatever we learn to do
Saturday 6 April 2013
Of all the varieties of virtues
Education is an ornament
The weaker are always anxious for justice and equality
The weaker are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
The weaker are always anxious for justice and equality
We are what we repeatedly do
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
We are what we repeatedly do
Wishing to be friends
We are what we repeatedly do
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
We are what we repeatedly do
I count him braver who overcomes his desires
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires
He is his own best friend
He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
He is his own best friend
Anybody can become angry
Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
Anybody can become angry
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice
The greatest virtues
Tragedy is an imitation
Tragedy is an imitation of a whole and complete action of some amplitude…Now a whole is that which has a beginning, middle, and an end
Tragedy is an imitation
Politicians also have no leisure
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Politicians also have no leisure
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones.
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance
It is more difficult to organize a peace
It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
It is more difficult to organize a peace
The unfortunate need people
The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.
The unfortunate need people
In poverty and other misfortunes of life
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life
Anyone can become angry
Anyone can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everyone’s power and that is not easy.
Anyone can become angry
A good style must have an air of novelty
A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.
(Aristotle)
A good style must have an air of novelty
Monday 1 April 2013
Of middle age the best that can be said is
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
(Don Marquis)
Of middle age the best that can be said is
Man is not the creature of circumstances
Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
(Benjamin Disraeli)
Man is not the creature of circumstances
Middle age is the time
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
(Don Marquis)
Middle age is the time
Old age comes on suddenly
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
(Emily Dickinson)
Old age comes on suddenly
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
(Josh Billings)
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you
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