peopleA clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not any man’s greed.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Oh, she says well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is, is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we're not supposed to dance at all anymore. Talking about when he tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope, 2005.
The Rich must live more simply so that the Poor may simply live.
A man who is convinced of the truth of his religion is indeed never tolerant. At the least, he is to feel pity for the adherent of another religion but usually it does not stop there. The faithful adherent of a religion will try first of all to convince those that believe in another religion and usually he goes on to hatred if he is not successful. However, hatred then leads to persecution when the might of the majority is behind it. In the case of a Christian clergyman, the tragic-comical is found in this: that the Christian religion demands love from the faithful, even love for the enemy. This demand, because it is indeed superhuman, he is unable to fulfill. Thus intolerance and hatred ring through the oily words of the clergyman. The love, which on the Christian side is the basis for the conciliatory attempt towards Judaism is the same as the love of a child for a cake. That means that it contains the hope that the object of the love will be eaten up... Letter to Rabbi Solomon Goldman of Chicago's Anshe Emet Congregation.
When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.
Could I climb to the highest place in Athens, I would lift my voice and proclaim, "Fellow citizens, why do you turn and scrape every stone to gather wealth, and take so little care of your children to whom one day you must relinquish it all?"
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
While religion prescribes brotherly love in the relations among the individuals and groups, the actual spectacle more resembles a battlefield than an orchestra. Everywhere, in economic as well as in political life, the guiding principle is one of ruthless striving for success at the expense of one's fellow. men. This competitive spirit prevails even in school and, destroying all feelings of human fraternity and cooperation, conceives of achievement not as derived from the love for productive and thoughtful work, but as springing from personal ambition and fear of rejection. There are pessimists who hold that such a state of affairs is necessarily inherent in human nature; it is those who propound such views that are the enemies of true religion, for they imply thereby that religious teachings are utopian ideals and unsuited to afford guidance in human affairs. The study of the social patterns in certain so-called primitive cultures, however, seems to have made it sufficiently evident that such a defeatist view is wholly unwarranted.
Put every great teacher together in a room, and they'd agree about everything; put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything.
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.
Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.
1492. The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them.
