Nature (the Art whereby God hath made and governs the World) is by the Art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an Artificial Animal. For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?
Ask advice of him who governs himself well.
You are like a captain navigating a ship. . . You must give the right orders, thoughts and images to your subconscious which controls and governs all your experiences.
That government that governs least governs best.
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits. . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs rulers.
You know, who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior. It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community. Now it's a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell.
Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.
Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.
In everything that moves through the universe, I see my own body, and in everything that governs the universe, my own soul. All men are my brethren, and all things my companions.
In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.
Given the low level of competence among politicians, every American should become a libertarian. The government that governs least is certainly the best choice when fools, opportunists and grafters run it. When power is for sale, then the government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.
That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
People believe Loose Change because it proposes a closed world: comprehensible, controllable, small. Despite the great evil which runs it, it is more companionable than the chaos which really governs our lives, a world without destination or purpose.
The head governs, the heart assists, the body acts.
But it is not reason that governs love.
The best government is that which governs least.
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.
Man governs himself more by impulse than reason
