Quotes 12

"Usual weather is like the average man, a convenient ideas that is seldom encountered in reality."--Paul B. Sears, "Deserts on the March," p. 171

"Stupidity, where it handles its own case, has a fool for a client."--Paul B. Sears, "Deserts on the March," p. 206

"It is axiomatic that political and social stability rests with the middle classes."--Paul B. Sears, "Deserts on the March," p. 209..."Indeed, the faith which reposes in the human mind for the power of science to work miracles is at once touching and dangerous. It is a curious destiny to befall that branch of knowledge which has done most to free mankind from its cruder superstitions. And because the faith is not groundless, it becomes very important for everyone to understand just how far it should go. There are probably things which science cannot do, as well as many which it can. The scientist himself has to work in a very human way, as those who look to him for help should appreciate better than they seem to."--Paul B. Sears, "Deserts on the March," p. 220

"Effective publication, no less than investigation, is an obligation which rests upon the man of science."--Paul B. Sears, "Deserts on the March," p.226

"Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness." -Immanuel Kant

"He who presses battle on the Sabbath Day invites God's wrath."--Stonewall Jackson (paraphrase)

"The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps"--General Archer Vandegrift, USMC

"One chooses logical argument only when one has no other means. One knows that one arouses mistrust with it, that it is not very persuasive. Nothing is easier to nullify than a logical argument: the tedium of long speeches proves this. It is a kind of self-defense for those who no longer have other weapons. Unless one has to insist on what is already one's right, there is no use for it. The Jews were argumentative for that reason; Reynard the Fox also — and Socrates too?"--Friedrich Nietzsche, "Twilight of the Idols"

"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact."--"Underground Man, Notes from the Underground," Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Logic! Why don't they teach logic at these schools?"--"Prof. Digory Kirke, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis

"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness"--Samuel Beckett

"Bertolt Brecht once observed that a country which needs heroes is an unfortunate one. But even more unfortunate is the country that needs heroes and has none. This is a misfortune Russia has avoided."--"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn