Notable Quotable 207

Feb 14, 2024

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records.

They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

- Alexander Hamilton

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

- Albert Einstein

The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.

- Robert Anton Wilson

A great deal of the current cult of pleasure, of luxury, of liberty in love, and all the rest of it, appears to me to be perfectly childish; and childish in the literal sense that it is greedy without any grasp of consequences.

- G.K. Chesterton

Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.

- Lucy Parsons

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else, is the greatest accomplishment.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need.

- Paulo Coelho

The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market economy nor even general abundance constitutes the crowning achievement of human life. If a nation's spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core cannot stand.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

- Immanuel Kant, ‘The Metaphysics of Morals’

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

- Nelson Mandela