Notable Quotable 338

Oct 30, 2024

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

- Aristotle

We cannot overstate our debt to the past, but the moment has the supreme claim. The past is for us; but the sole terms on which it can become ours are its subordination to the present.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Modern man does not experience himself as a part of nature but as an outside force destined to dominate and conquer it. He even talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side.

- E.F. Schumacher

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

- G.K. Chesterton

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

- St. Thomas Aquinas

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Faith is to believe what you do not see. The reward of faith is to see what you believe.

- St. Augustine of Hippo

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

The same people who refuse to make any sacrifice for their own family or their own children demand that we sacrifice a civilization for strangers.

- Alice Teller

All the works of the angels and the inspirations they impart are also accomplished or granted by God.

For ordinarily these works and inspirations are derived from God by means of the angels, and the angels also in turn give them one to another without delay.

- St. John of the Cross

Cursed be the social wants that sin against the strength of youth!

Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living truth!

- Alfred Tennyson