Famous Quotes Name H

Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

After 3, a body has a mind of its own.

He who does not care for Heaven but is contented where he is, is already in Heaven.

Spirit is living, and Life is Spirit, and Life and Spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two.

When he has ceased to hear the many, he may discern the One - the inner sound which kills the outer.

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought.

Live neither in the present nor the future, but in the eternal. The giant weed (of evil

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered.

Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable.

Shun praise. Praise leads to self-delusion. Thy body is not Self, thyself is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.

There is no religion higher than the truth.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best".

When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes."

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes.

Silence will not betray your thoughts but the expression on your face will. Humor has a hundred faces tragedy only a few.

Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

'We were making the future,' he said, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is'.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

Religion is pickled God.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them.

Strength is the outcome of need.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.