Morris Raphael Cohen Famous Quotes
"Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essense of religion, namely, its absolute claims."
Morris Raphael Cohen Quotations
"To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know"
Logan Pearsall Smith
"Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires."
Lao Tzu
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.
George Orwell
"When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about."
Albert Einstein
What did you ask at school today
Richard Fenyman
Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind.
Walter Bagehot
All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
David Ross Brower
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
Edward Verall Lucas
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
M F K Fisher
Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.
Jonathan Swift