Jacob Quotes
It is hope that gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world into a possible one that looks better.
The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set.
One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.
The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants.
One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.
God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life.
We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.
Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.
Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.
Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.
We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye ... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.
She'll sting you one day, Oh, ever so gently, so you hardly ever feel it. 'til you fall dead.
That is a debatable point, whether South Africans are xenophobic. I don't you'd have the numbers that you have of foreigners if South Africa was xenophobic.
To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success.
To love my neighbor is to assist the arising and unfolding in him of that which can harmonize the real elements of his nature.
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.
The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.
Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language.