A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
All action is vicarious faith.
All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty- all are responsible.
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
Knowledge- like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
Life without commitment is not worth living.
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
Racism is man's gravest threat to man- the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power... Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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