Quotes about "Space & Cosmic Perspective"

It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach. ”

Human depravity originates in the vices of political constitution. ”

There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize. ”

The question now afloat in the world respecting 'things as they are' is the most interesting that can be presented to the human mind. While one party pleads for reformation and change, the other extols in the warmest terms the existing constitution of society. ”

Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of harmony in the universe. ”

Great changes cannot take place in the minds of generations of men without a corresponding change in their external symbols. There must be a harmony between the inner and the outward condition of human beings, and the progress of the one must keep pace with the progress of the other. ”

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place. ”

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience. ”

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place. ”

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. ”