The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you ...can fool all of the people all of the time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, "Know thyself," and too often leads to a self-estimate which wil...l subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother.... They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes. But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of... having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poor Henry, he's spending eternity wandering round and round a stately park and the fence is just too high for him to peep over an...d they're having tea just too far away for him to hear what the countess is saying.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there are... equal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »