Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed |
Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived. |
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience. |
For my part, I find even eternal damnation less incredible, certainly less ridiculous, than this lame and impotent conclusion which we are asked to admire as the supreme effort of Omnipotence |
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy |
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy |
Francis Bacon, a man who rose to eminence by betraying his friends, asserted, no doubt as one of the ripe lessons of experience, that "knowledge is power |
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. |
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires |
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. |
Furious at his own misery, he sought the cause in the misdeeds of other men, and turned upon them in savage battle, thus magnifying a thousand times the ills that Nature has provide |
God is a reality of spirit... He cannot... be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects. |
Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there |
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind. |
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly |