The way a book is read- which is to say,the qualities a reader brings to a book- can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of ot...
It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed. ... Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all.
The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
We will not have peace by afterthought.
The essence of man is imperfection.
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.
Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a se...
History is a vast early warning system.
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it withing his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations-plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program...
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