It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.
. . . it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women, from any share in the representation; that exclusion is also repugnant to the particular principles of the British Constitution. It violates one of the oldest of our constitutional maxims. . . that taxation and representation should be co-extensive. Do not women pay taxes?
When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.
Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.
Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.
There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
Just watching Robert De Niro was all the words of wisdom I really needed.
Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.
And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah.
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the world must be organised to mathematical principles.
Eventually we will all understand that all wisdom is within us, and as we remember, practice and access this wisdom, we will become our own best teacher.
He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.
Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.
In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.
It's common to say that trees come from seeds. But how can a tiny seed create a huge tree? Seeds do not contain the resources need to grow a tree. These must come from the medium or environment within which the tree grows. But the seed does provide something that is crucial : a place where the whole of the tree starts to form. As resources such as water and nutrients are drawn in, the seed organizes the process that generates growth. In a sense, the seed is a gateway through which the future possibility of the living tree emerges.
When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.
Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
