Showing posts with label Quotation of the Week. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quotation of the Week. Show all posts
Enthusiasm
"Nothing great has ever been achieved without enthusiasm" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Giant Hologram
"The universe may be nothing more than a giant hologram created by the mind." - David Bohm (Physicist, 1917-1992)
Democracy
"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - Winston Churchill
Teachers
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." - Henry Brooks Adams
Civilization
"Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity." - Arnold Toynbee
The American Dream
"It is called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin
Mysticism
"The drug user drowns in the same pool mystics swim in." - Joseph Campbell
Government and Luck
"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them" - P. J. O'Rourke
Man and Machine
"A world entirely conquered by technology, entirely dominated by industrial processes, entirely occupied by man and machine, would be a world unfit to live in." - Edward Abbey
The Flow of Time
"The sensation of the flow of time is directly proportional to the quality and quantity of the flow of thoughts." - G. I. Gurdjieff
Love Will Prevail
"It is part of God's law that love will ultimately prevail in this world. But it is also part of His law that we have total freedom whether to love now or later, whether to embrace it willingly or to putup a fight. History bears witness to the resistance of the human species to the love in our hearts. Love's pull, our resistance to it, and our final surrender back to love are the story at the center of all human existence." - Marianne Williamson
Victor Hugo on Ideas
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
Einstein on Politics
"Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perenially rejuvenated illusions." - Albert Einstein
Disovering Fire
"Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness fo God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Einstein on Marriage
"Marriage is the unsuccessful attempt to make something lasting out of an incident." - Alber Einstein
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