Which Quotes

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.