EGOTISM WHICH IS THE MOVING FORCE OF THE WORLD & ALTRUISM WHICH IS ITS MORALITY, THESE ARE TWO CONTRADICTORY INSTINCTS, OF WHICH ONE IS SO PLAIN & THE OTHER SO MYSTERIOUS, CANNOT SERVE US UNLESS IN THE INCOMPREHENSIBLE ALLIANCE OF THEIR IRRECONCILABLE ANTAGONISM. JOSEPH CONRAD
LIFE is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die so do other creatures. DALAI LAMA
THE ASCH CONFORMITY EXPERIMENTS were a series of psychological experiments conducted by Solomon Asch during the 1950s . . . Asch found that people were willing to ignore reality and give an incorrect answer in order to conform to the rest of the group.
THOMAS CARLYLE 1795-1881–“The French Revolution””On Heroes
“AT about 14 Carlyle WALKED 100 MILES from his home so that he could attend The University of Edinburgh.” wikipedia
IF you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
SILENCE IS MORE ELOQUENT THAN WORDS.
A LOVING HEART IS THE BEGINNING OF ALL KNOWLEDGE.
THE PAST IS ALWAYS ATTRACTIVE BECAUSE IT IS DRAINED OF FEAR.
GREAT MAN SHOWS HIS GREATNESS BY THE WAY HE TREATS LITTLE MEN.
DO NOT BE EMBARRASSED by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
A person with a clear purpose will make progress even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress even on there smoothest road.
WHY tell me a man is a fine speaker if it is not the truth that he is speaking?
SHOW ME THE MAN YOU HONOR & I will know what kind of man you are.
I DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE COLLECTIVE WISDOM OF INDIVIDUAL IGNORANCE.
MEN’S HEARTS ought not to be set against one another but set with one another & all against evil only.
PUBLIC OPINION IS THE GREATEST LIE IN THE WORLD.
HE WHO HAS HEALTH has hope & he who has hope has everything.
I read Gibbon & then first clearly saw that Christianity was not true. Then came the most trying time of my life. I should either have gone mad or made an end of myself had I not fallen in with some very superior minds.
WHAT WE BECOME depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
NOT what you possess but what you do with what you have determines your true worth.
THERE IS OFTEN MORE SPIRITUAL FORCE IN A PROVERB THAN IN WHOLE PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMS.
A STRONG MIND ALWAYS HOPES & HAS ALWAYS CAUSE TO HOPE.
HUMOR HAS JUSTLY BEEN REGARDED AS THE FINEST PERFECTION OF POETIC GENIUS.
IF JESUS CHRIST WERE TO COME TODAY, PEOPLE would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner & hear what he had to say & make fun of it.
ENDURANCE IS PATIENCE CONCENTRATED.
EGOTISM is the source & summary of all faults & miseries.
CONVICTION IS WORTHLESS UNLESS IT IS CONVERTED INTO CONDUCT.
NO PRESSURE — NO DIAMONDS.
EVERYWHERE in life the true question is not what we gain but what we do.
NO PERSON IS IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO MAKE ME ANGRY.
A MAN WITHOUT A GOAL IS LIKE A SHIP WITHOUT A RUDDER.
SECRECY is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
SPEECH IS SILVER — SILENCE IS GOLDEN.
NO GHOST WAS EVER SEEN BY TWO PAIR OF EYES.
HISTORY shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
NO GREAT MAN LIVES IN VAIN. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
THE ESSENCE of all Science lies in the PHILOSOPHY OF CLOTHES.
SCIENCE IS AS DEEP AS ETERNITY SPEECH AS SHALLOW AS TIME.
EVERY NOBLE WORK IS AT FIRST IMPOSSIBLE.
HE WHO HAS NO VISION OF ETERNITY HAS NO HOLD ON TIME.
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
OUR GRAND BUSINESS undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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