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Life Quotes by Walter Lippmann
- A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say,…
- Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.
- Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.
- The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may…
- To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.
- Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction…
- The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very…
- A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.
- The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to…
- The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of facts; it is…
- It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
- Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in…
- A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of…
- Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk,…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle