Browsing Quotes, page 42
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Speaker: Jawaharlal NehruSource: http://findquotes.com/Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 11:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills
Speaker: Duc De La RochefoucauldSource: http://findquotes.com/Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 11:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Speaker: DecouvertesSource: http://findquotes.com/Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 11:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.
Speaker: Henry MackenzieSource: http://findquotes.com/Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 11:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
Speaker: Mahatma GandhiSource: http://findquotes.com/Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 11:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Now men say, “I am in no wise prepared for this work, and therefore it cannot be wrought in me,” and thus they have an excuse, so that they neither are ready nor in the way to be so. And truly there is no one to blame for this but themselves. For if a man were looking and striving after nothing but to find a preparation in all things, and diligently gave his whole mind to see how he might become prepared; verily God would well prepare him, for God giveth as much care and earnestness and love to the preparing of a man, as to the pouring in of His Spirit when the man is prepared.
Speaker: William LawSource: http://findquotes.com/Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 11:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Even though stupidity is highly discouraged, it is still a frequent visitor.
Speaker: Randall BoothPosted: 02 Jul 2009 at 11:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Seen from death, our close relations with our domestic animals no longer seem to be something minor to be taken for granted, given their everyday nature; ten years of a lifetime have crystallized in Leo, and I take the measure of how the ridiculous, superfluous cats who wander through our lives with all the placidity and indifference of an imbecile are in fact the guardians of life’s good and joyful moments, and of its happy web, even beneath the canopy of misfortune.
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 27 Jun 2009 at 1:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
So many quests, all these different worlds… Can we all be so similar yet live in such disparate worlds? Is it possible that we are all sharing the same frenetic agitation, even though we have not sprung from the same earth or the same blood and do not share the same ambition?
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 27 Jun 2009 at 1:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
This pause in time, within time… When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is possible only with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one’s own, one’s certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship.
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 27 Jun 2009 at 1:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It’s the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you see both their beauty and their death.
...Does this mean that this is how we must live our lives? Constantly poised between beauty and death, between movement and its disappearance?
Maybe that’s what being alive is all about: so we can track down those moments that are dying.Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 27 Jun 2009 at 1:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You do not take up philosophy the way you enter the seminary, with a credo as your sword and a single path as your destiny. Should you study Plato. Epicurus, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel or even Husserl? Esthetics, politics, morality, epistemology, metaphysics? Should you devote your time to teaching, to producing a body of work, to research, to Culture? It makes no difference. The only thing that matters is your intention: are you elevating thought and contributing to the common good, or rather joining the ranks in a field of study whose only purpose is its own perpetuation, and only function the self-reproduction of a sterile elite – for this turns the university into a sect.
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 27 Jun 2009 at 1:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you want to make a [university] career, take a marginal, exotic text (William Ockham’s 'Sum of Logic’) that is relatively unexplored, abuse its literal meaning by ascribing it to an intention that the author himself had not been aware of (because, as we all know, the unknown in conceptual matters is far more powerful than any conscious design), distort that meaning to the point where it resembles an original thesis (it is the concept of the absolute power of God that is at the basis of a logical analysis, the philosophical implications of which are ignored), burn all your icons while you’re at it (atheism, faith in Reason as opposed to the reason of faith, love of wisdom ad other bagatelles dear to the hearts of socialists), devote a year of your life to this unworthy little game at the expense of a collectivity whom you drag from their beds at seven in the morning, and send a courier to your research director.
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 27 Jun 2009 at 12:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In life all must choose at times. Sometimes, two possibilities are good; neither is evil. Usually, however, one is of greater import than the other. When in doubt, each must choose that which concerns the good of others—the greater law—rather than that which chiefly benefits ourselves—the lesser law. . . . That was the choice made in Eden.
Source: The Savior and the Serpent, Unlocking the Doctrines of the Fall, page 34-35Posted: 27 Jun 2009 at 9:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Man . . . was made from different and opposite substances [i.e., dust and spirit] . . . [and] these two things contend against each other in man: so that if the [spirit of man], which has its origin from God, gains the mastery, it is immortal, and lives in perpetual light; if, on the other hand, the body shall overpower the [spirit], and subject it to its dominion, it is in everlasting darkness and death . . . [and will subject] them to everlasting punishment.
Source: The Savior and the Serpent, Unlocking the Doctrines of the Fall, page 46Posted: 27 Jun 2009 at 9:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The place appointed for Adam’s residence was a garden, not an ivory house nor a palace overlaid with gold, but a garden . . . Adam too was born into humble circumstances. This is a clarion call to the Saints to live lives of simplicity rather than excess, humility rather than extravagance.
Speaker: Alonzo L. GaskillSource: The Savior and the Serpent, Unlocking the Doctrines of the Fall, page 53-54Posted: 27 Jun 2009 at 9:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The submission of one’s will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God’s altar. The many other things we “give” . . . are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us. However, when you and I finally submit ourselves, by letting our individual wills be swallowed up in God’s will, then we are really giving something to Him! It is the only possession which is truly ours to give!”
Speaker: Elder Neal A. MaxwellSource: The Savior and the Serpent, Unlocking the Doctrines of the Fall, page 61Posted: 27 Jun 2009 at 9:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Eve was “not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.”
Speaker: As quoted by Alonzo L. GaskillSource: The Savior and the Serpent, Unlocking the Doctrines of the Fall, page 62Posted: 27 Jun 2009 at 9:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The sin is not in wishing to become like God. The sin is in attempting to do so without God.
Speaker: Alonzo L. GaskillSource: The Savior and the Serpent, Unlocking the Doctrines of the Fall, page 68-69Posted: 27 Jun 2009 at 8:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Herein lies the key to a good life—not rules to follow, nor problems to avoid— but an engaged humility, an earnest acceptance of life’s pains and promises.”
Speaker: Joshua ShenkSource: Happiness: 3 amazing tips from the world's oldest case study, by Yeah Dave (David Romanelli)Posted: 27 Jun 2009 at 8:56 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
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