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Horace, full name Quintus Horatius Flaccus NULL
Force without reason falls of its own weight.
To reject wisdom because the person who communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away a pineapple and assign for a reason the roughness of its coat?
Horace, full name Quintus Horatius Flaccus NULL
Brute strength bereft of reason falls by its own weight.
Theodore Gottlieb von Hippel the Younger
The soul has, living apart from its corporeal envelope, a profound habitual meditation which prepares it for a future life.
Arianna Huffington, born Arianna Stassinopoulos
We are not only made in God’s image, but that we are made to image God - to reflect His freedom, joy, compassion and peace in our lives... When religion becomes reduced to an outward observation of rules and ceremonies and an intolerance toward the beliefs of others, we are mistaking the oyster for the pearl. The oyster is certainly valuable, but it is of infinitely greater value when it promotes the growth of the pearl... We cannot reason our way back to the roots of religion. We cannot trap God in stale dogmas or narrow creeds. Our purpose is to make religion a continuous living experience, to lead us toward a resurrection not of the dead but of the living who are dead to their own truth. Then religion becomes a thread that can both link us to the past and guide us to our future.
Compassion | Experience | Freedom | Future | God | Growth | Intolerance | Joy | Observation | Past | Peace | Purpose | Purpose | Reason | Religion | Truth | Wisdom | God | Value |
'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
The medical profession tells us that there are four conditions which must be met if we are to have any chance of leading a happy life: physical security, social recognition, adventure, emotional security. In today's highly technical and scientific life, these four considerations become increasingly important, but we should add one vital ingredient: love. Love of our fellow man, love for our work, and the conviction that this love insures the future for all of us.
Adventure | Chance | Future | Happy | Important | Life | Life | Love | Man | Security | Wisdom | Work |
John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy
Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.
Determination | Disease | Future | Hope | Means | Mockery | Poverty | Self | Self-determination | Wisdom |
Every pupil you have carries in his mind or heart or conscience a bit of you. Your influence, your example, your ideas and values keep marching on - how far into the future and into what realms of our spacious universe you will never know.
Conscience | Example | Future | Heart | Ideas | Influence | Mind | Universe | Will | Wisdom |
Lyndon Johnson, fully Lyndon Baines Johnson, aka LBJ
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.
Children | Faith | Future | Government | People | Trust | Wisdom | Government |
The reason for the sublime simplicity in the works of nature lies all too often in the sublime shortsightedness in the observer.
Nature | Reason | Simplicity | Wisdom |