We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.