A.J. Russell Quotes
The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself.
My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work.
It was then given me to know that the power of revitalization of my body was mine, and I, who had been pronounced dead by man, lived strongly in the body.
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.
Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.
But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.
The more that we choose not to talk about domestic violence, the more we shy away from the issue, the more we lose.
The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest.
Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
You have to learn to laugh all the time. It's a practice of life. It's a practice of happiness.
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.
The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.
Every action in Nature is voided as it occurs, is repeated as it is voided, and is recorded as it is repeated.
I FIND IT SO DIFFICULT NOT TO HATE, WHEN I DO NOT HATE I FEEL WE FEW ARE SO LONELY IN THE WORLD
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence
Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload.
Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past, present, and future.
I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.
It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.
Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.
The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.