Quotes
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." - Henry Ward BeecherHere in this night
Alive with fire,
Thick with angel wings,
It is not my thoughts
that gather and conspire,
It is my soul that sings:
- Stephen J. Rivelle, translated from the writings of Roger, Duke of Lunel.
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
- William Blake
All the lessons of history in four sentences:
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
- Charles A. Beard
About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
- Lord Byron
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
- Clarence Darrow
If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.
- Lane Kirkland
If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
- Marian Wright Edelman
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
- Pearl S. Buck
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- Albert Einstein
Let me give you the definition of ethics: it is good to maintain life and to further life. It is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.
- Albert Schweitzer
Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication.
- Algernon Black
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
- Barry Lopez
The cosmos is neither moral or immoral; only people are. He who would move the world must first move himself.
- Edward Ericson
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
- Eric Hoffer
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
- Thomas Edward Laurence (of Arabia)
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