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One Quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick
- No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
- ...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an amazing invention. Yet…
- One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.
- No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep…
- A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ'…
- The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride…
- A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in…
- One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant." Nobody…
- Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to…
- It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
- In the foothills of the Himalayas, one hears the prayer: "Oh Lord, we know not what is good for us. You know what it is.…
- No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.--Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
- One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making…
- Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle