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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. ”
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it. ”
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. ”
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature. ”
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. ”
Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler. ”
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret. ”
The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest. ”
I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy. ”
When I was a kid, I was reliably informed that we'd have gone to Mars by 1985, and of course it's 2012, and we're still really no closer to a human expedition to Mars, but that shouldn't detract from the amazing achievements that are being done on a day-to-day basis by robotic envoys. ”