All - Quotes
I think everybody`s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications? To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
How do I really feel about the possibility that all my actions, and those of my friends, are ultimately governed by mathematical principles (...)? I can live with that. I would, indeed, prefer to have these actions controlled by something residing in some (...) aspect of Plato`s fabulous mathematical world than to have them be subject to the kind of simplistic base motives, such as pleasure-seeking, personal greed, or aggressive violence, that many would argue to be the implications of a strictly scientific standpoint.
The best gifts of all find the fewest admirers, and that most men mistake the bad for the good, - a daily evil that nothing can prevent, like a plague which no remedy can cure. There is but one thing to be done, though how difficult! - the foolish must become wise, - and that they can never be. The value of life they never know; they see with the outer eye but never with the mind, and praise the trivial because the good is strange to them.
Year`s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
When you get old, peace is about all you want. You folks might not believe that now, but you`ll find out.
Cause this fight was rigged from the beginning. All day, every day, we fight against the current. Sometimes we lose.
Affection, acceptance, and unconditional love. We all want it. We all look for it. But when we find it it`s flat-out terrifying. Because just as quickly as we may have found it it can disappear. And we`re back out there in the cold, alone.