Thursday, September 23, 2010

"Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"With great power comes great responsibility."

"No one should have the kind of power most of us would want to yield."

"Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair."

"Insults should be well avenged or well endured."

"Even beauty may present a prism wearing to the eye."

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."

"Faith? That's just another word for not thinking."

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie --

--through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. --

--Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. --

-- He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly --

-- submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. --

-- If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."

"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics --

--are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to --

-- perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics --

-- so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"

"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."