We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.
It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
As mankind ‘matures,’ as it becomes more possible to be frank in the scrutiny of the self and others and in the publication of one’s findings, biography and autobiography will take the place of fiction for the investigation and discussion of character.
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.
In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Our true nationality is mankind.
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.