04/30/19

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. -Lin Yutang

04/29/19

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure." -H.L. Mencken

04/26/19

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others; on the improvement of mankind; even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way. -John Stuart Mill

04/25/19

What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle. -Marvin Minsky

04/24/19

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. -Friedrich Nietzsche

04/23/19

If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds. -J.B. Phillips

04/22/19

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves-–regret for the past and fear of the future. -Fulton Oursler

04/19/19

[The] ability to perceive one's own life in a way that encompasses the full spectrum of human possibility is essential to the search for meaning. -Daniel H. Pink

04/18/19

The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I expected. -Hugh Prather

04/17/19

When I am asked, "What, in your view, is the worst human rights problem in the world today?" I reply: "Absolute poverty." This is not the answer most journalists expect. It is neither sexy nor legalistic. But it is true. -Mary Robinson

04/16/19

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. -Christina Rossetti

04/15/19

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized. -Albert Bushnell Hart

04/12/19

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. -Giorgos Seferis

04/11/19

Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he's potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of his tribe or his God. -Benjamin Spock

04/10/19

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. -Adlai Stevenson

04/09/19

You don't climb mountains without a team, you don't climb mountains without being fit, you don't climb mountains without being prepared and you don't climb mountains without balancing the risks and rewards. And you never climb a mountain on accident--it has to be intentional. -Mark Udall

04/08/19

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness. -Pierre Trudeau