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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the read more
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In read more
It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process by which opinion is formed, it is very probable that, by the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached. It is because we do not yet which of the many competing new opinions will prove itself the best that we wait until it has gained sufficient support.
It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well
is the great art of social life.
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well
is the great art of social life.
The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behavior...lacks the peculiarity that characterizes events read more
The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behavior...lacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for read more
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.rn
In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a read more
In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.
If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
