Best Theodore Parker Quotes
- A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life. Chiefly
- Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would… Actual
- All men desire to be immortal. All
- No man is so great as mankind. Great
- All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which is a symbol… All
- And war-the worst form of evil! Evil
- Religion without joy-it is no religion. Funny
- Science is the natural ally of religion. Allies
- Humanity is the Son of God. God
- Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to… Complete
- The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul. Body
- Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body. Body
- Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God,… All
- Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never. Failing
- Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and… Affinity
- It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic… All
- Wealth and want equally harden the human heart. Equally
- I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the… Arc
- Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness. Beauty
- The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. Book
- Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.". Democracy
- A happy wedlock is a long falling in love. Fall
- Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Individual
- Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so. Been
- Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully… Achieve