I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.
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I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and
say, "How can we screw read more
I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and
say, "How can we screw this kid up.".
If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator read more
If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.
Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.
Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.
The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies,
prejudices, and false opinions he had read more
The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies,
prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.
That which costs little is less valued.
That which costs little is less valued.
The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said read more
The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.
To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is
to argue disbelief in the dignity read more
To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is
to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as
you think necessary. Then ask yourself and read more
Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as
you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. .
. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If it
doesn't, it is of no use.
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we
hold of ourselves with the appalling things that read more
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we
hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about
us.
