If you excommunicate one of us there will be 10 more to step up and take her place. Excommunicate those 10 and there will be 100 t...o take their places.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All things are wearisome; more than one can express; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, or the ear filled with hearing. What ha...s been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The English public are not yet ripe to comprehend the essential difference between the reason and the understanding,--between a pr...inciple and a maxim--an eternal truth and a mere conclusion from a generalization of a great number of facts.... Suppose Adam watching the sun sinking under the horizon for the first time; he is seized with gloom and terror, relieved with scarce a ray of hope of ever seeing the glorious light again. The next evening when it declines, his hopes are stronger but mixed with fear, and even at the end of 1000 years, all that a man can feel, is hope and an expectation so strong as to preclude anxiety. Compare this in its highest degree with the assurance which you have that the two sides of any triangle are greater than the third. This demonstrated of one triangle is seen to be eternally true of all imaginable triangles. This is the truth perceived at once by the reason, wholly independently of experience. It is and must ever be so, multiply and vary the shapes and sizes of triangles as you may.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has j...udged by the laws of chance--so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamour to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world, an entity out of everything, was created by neither gods nor men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regula...rly becoming ignited and regularly becoming extinguished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...deep down, deeper than everyday gets me, I am still one of them and will be till I die. In my heart and soul I belong to the lo...t and the red wagons and the Big Top.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where ha...te is, fear will be lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and our plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating. Analyse in this way the hatred of ideas or of the kind of people whom we have once loved and whose faces are preserved in Spirits of Anger. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; the child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So the first it is written, will be the twisted or the tortured individuals,... out of line, out of step with world so-called progress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every... man that is born will be hailed as essential.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »