Human Nature

"The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... is the movie vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature."

"As mathematical and absolute certainty is seldom to be attained in human affairs, reason and public utility require that judges and all mankind in forming their opinions of the truth of facts should b…"

"Those who take up the science of war must not fail to master the Classics. The reason is that arms are dangerous instruments and not necessarily forced for good. How can we safely entrust them to any …"

"Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different …"

"“I trust I have not grown so gullible as to consult a doctor,” the bureaucrat said with dignity. “If I want medical attention, I hall employ the qualified machinery or, in extremis, a human with prope…"

"To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life."

"Know or listen to those who know."

"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one."

"Hitch your wagon to a star."

"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."

"Never, never, never give up."

"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins."

"You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals."

"Begin to be now what you will be hereafter."

"There's a way to do it better - find it."

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."

"A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did."

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. …"