Bernard Iddings Bell Famous Quotes
"To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself."
Bernard Iddings Bell Quotations
"It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive."
Albert Einstein
"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them."
Jean Cocteau
There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
Nancy Spain
Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
William Adams
"When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion."
Albert Einstein
"The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility."
Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian
"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."
Scottish Proverb
"We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of regeneration of individuality, liberty, community and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another and with the divine intelligence such as the world has always dreamed."
Dee W Hock
History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo Would that change what I had for breakfast
Henry Bromel