J. F.

Kennedy
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy
body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to
sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
Mark Twain
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause
and reflect.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool
than to open it and remove all doubt.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is
prepared to die at any time.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored
than to anything on which it is poured.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that
you didnt do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail
away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore,
Dream, Discover.

Khalil Gibran
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of
thinking.
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the
hour of separation.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving
heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which
does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection.
March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of
Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and
though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at
hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible
to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And
when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
Victor Frankl
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked
through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that
everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human
freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to
choose one's own way.

Aristotle
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without
accepting it.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of
contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right
person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right
purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is
not easy.
Dietrich Bonhoffer
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its
children.
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do,
and more in the light of what they suffer.
In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give,
and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate
the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to
the help of others.
Erich Fromm
I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between
"life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between
reality and illusions; between objectivity and intolerance; between
brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission.

Frederick Nietzche

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Why does man not see things? He himself is standing in the way.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it
is the rule.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at
a given time is a function of power and not truth.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher
esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not
become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss
will gaze back into you.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be
something we are no longer free.
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or
any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn
about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not
how to escape from it.
Oscar Wilde
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Socrates
An unexamined life is not worth living.

Bernard M. Baruch

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't
matter, and those who matter don't mind.
Thomas Szasz
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom,
define or be defined.
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults;
and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It
is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a
minimum.
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury
to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of
their own self-importance, learn so easily.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we
fail.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes
longer.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid
with them.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something
else is the greatest accomplishment.

Martin Luther King

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative
altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of
comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and
controversy.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through
continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our
freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid
of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good
in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this,
we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Jimi Hendrix
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know
peace.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would
be a merrier world.
All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old
that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.
I have in this War a burning private grudge against that ruddy little
ignoramus Adolf Hitler ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for
ever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe,
which I have ever loved, and tried to present in its true light.
H. D. Thoreau
Men have become the tools of their tools.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to
what lives within us.
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought
will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we
walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and
over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
C. S. Lewis
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a
more clever devil.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival
value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for
comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful
thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in
humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an
infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in
a state of pride.
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that
it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and
therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark
would be without meaning.

Mahatma Gandhi
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full
victory.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you
win.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an
indomitable will.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the
other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more
effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Dr Seuss
A person's a person, no matter how small.
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing
Act.
You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a
child.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life
through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at
life's realities.

William Shakespere
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a

fool.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a
naughty world.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful
has fallen asleep in life.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's
hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from
old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Karl Popper
It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a
hell.
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds
of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power.
This is elevated into the history of the world.

Marcus Aurelius
Confine yourself to the present.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you
will find strength.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to
be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher
than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one
produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a
vulgar man aspires.
Nikola Tesla
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to
think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What
we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated
stimuli.
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they
wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a
structure which has no relation to reality.
Alanis Obomsawin of the Abenaki
Your people are driven by a terrible sense of deficiency. When the last tree
is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe
the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank
accounts and that you cant eat money.

Charlie Chaplin
We think too much and feel too little.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Karl Polyani
The organization of labour is only another word for the forms of life of the
common people, this means that the development of the market system
would be accompanied by a change in the organization of society itself.
All along the line, human society had become an accessory of the
economic system.
Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia.
Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without
annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have
physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a
wilderness.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.
Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life
without water.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what
nobody has thought.

Buddha
It is a man's own mind not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our
thoughts, we make the world.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind
on the present moment.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing
it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving
for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring
peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man
can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom
and virtue will naturally come to him.
John Steinbeck
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of
power.
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to
suppose that they are like himself.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there
are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the
greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men,
kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are
the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest,
sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are
the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they
love the produce of the second.
John K. Galbraith
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of
thinking.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the
opposite.
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out
on the troubled seas of thought.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there
is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market
award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal
gesture by the individual to himself.
Edward De Bono
If you never change your mind, why have one?
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than
mistakes of logic.
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze
perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use
these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a
certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so
obvious that the problem no longer exists.
There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that
information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you
don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very
dangerous.
Aldous Huxley
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most
important of all the lessons of history.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means
for going backwards.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which
means never losing your enthusiasm.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving,
and that's your own self.
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens
to you.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can
be sure of changing is oneself.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards
the religion of solitude.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely
consistent people are dead.
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their
curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their
vision.
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all
one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of
advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence
about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian
propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they
could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Carl Jung
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by
sadness.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the
darkness of other people.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical
substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol
or morphine or idealism.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not
liberate, it oppresses.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle
a light in the darkness of mere being.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The
judgment of the intellect is only part of the truth.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who
turn into torturers.
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to
birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the
surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something
is out of tune.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not
between right and wrong.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in
vain.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone
who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry
out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security
and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and
their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting
results.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word
happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far
better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with
gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so
much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the
growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Leo Strauss
Medieval political philosophers, no less than their ancient counterparts,
carefully adapted their wording to the dominant moral views of their time,
lest their writings be condemned as heretical or unjust, not by "the many"
(who did not read), but by those "few" whom the many regarded as the
most righteous guardians of morality. It was precisely these righteous
personalities who would be most inclined to persecute/ostracize anyone
who was in the business of exposing the noble or great lie upon which the
authority of the few over the many stands or falls.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
The battle line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop
him.
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond
words.
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably
forced to take the lie as his principle.
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained
by violence.
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and
works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know
countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the
processes loses his soul.
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived
through is art and literature.
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the
West, it is still a living lion.
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century,
and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we
make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to
seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything
away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no
longer in your power - he's free again.
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the
whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own
conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no
less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last
forever.
Walther Rathenau
We cannot use Russia's methods, as they only and at best prove that the
economy of an agrarian nation can be leveled to the ground; Russia's
thoughts are not our thoughts. They are, as it is in the spirit of the Russian
city intelligentsia, unphilosophical, and highly dialectic; they are
passionate logic based on unverified suppositions. They assume that a
single good, the destruction of the capitalist class, weighs more than all
other goods, and that poverty, dictatorship, terror and the fall of
civilization must be accepted to secure this one good. Ten million people
must die to free ten million people from the bourgeoisie is regarded as a
harsh but necessary consequence. The Russian idea is compulsory
happiness, in the same sense and with the same logic as the compulsory
introduction of Christianity and the Inquisition.

Justice William Douglas

(Speaking of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution)
Accordingly a function of free speech under our system of government is
to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces
a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or
even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It
may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling
effects as it presses for acceptance of an idea. That is why freedom of
speech, though not absolute is nevertheless protected against censorship or
punishment, unless shown likely to produce a clear and present danger of
serious substantive evil that rises far above public inconvenience,
annoyance or unrest.