How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that ...valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don't want to die!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A personality is an indefinite quantum of traits which is subject to constant flux, change, and growth from the birth of the indiv...idual in the world to his death. A character, on the other hand, is a fixed and definite quantum of traits which, though it may be interpreted with slight differences from age to age and actor to actor, is nevertheless in its essentials forever fixed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space--it will seem... increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that... the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousness. When people get on their hi...nd legs and holler, the problem has not only entered the public consciousness--it has also become a part of the public conscience. At that point, things in our democracy begin to hum.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prosp...ect of success nor the consequence of failure--but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better per...suaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone--who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, fel...t himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »