Max Nordau Famous Quotes



"Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice."


Max Nordau Quotations






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The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
Sri da Avabhas

War will cease when men refuse to fight.
F Hansen

"Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing."
Aesop

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant

"What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer."
Bertrand Russell

Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Aphra Behn

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
George Iles

"If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live."
George E Woodberry

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
Fred Hoyle

"Academia forcibly tells you about all the great men and revolutionaries, and rebels, especially the rebels, who have changed the world for the better. But they wouldn't notice him were he standing right in front of them."
Eli Khamarov