Notable Quotable 251

Apr 16, 2024

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.

For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.

- John Milton

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Effete men turn to the Left because there they find fashionable and self-righteous justifications for their lack of manhood.

- Wagner Clemente Soto

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced with sadness.

- Carl Jung

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The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions.

They are mistaken only in thinking that Anarchy can be instituted by a revolution. "To establish Anarchy." "Anarchy will be instituted." But it will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require protection from governmental power, and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power.

- Leo Tolstoy

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

- Thomas Carlyle

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

- Charles Mackay

Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him.

Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you.

- Flann O'Brien

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

- George Bernard Shaw