Quotes about "Life Wisdom"

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. ”

His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it. ”

I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised. ”

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs. ”

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. ”

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. ”

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. ”

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. ”

I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas. ”

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity. ”