Don't part with illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
- Topic: Perception, Vision
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably gracious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg crackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
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What is a man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.
Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
The more I study science the more I believe in God.
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
One beautiful heart is better than a thousand beautiful faces.
I just want God’s will. And He’s allowed to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promise land . . . So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.
Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.