William H. Stewart famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others, only walks his path as if on crutches, while ignoring his own healthy limbs.

  • The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

  • One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.

  • The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.

  • My family achieved success not in spite of, but because of the American system of taxation. After all, without reliable and safe roads there’d have been no Disneyland; without high functioning legal systems and a well regulated business environment there would have been no copyright protection for Mickey Mouse.

  • It's actually safe to create a universe in your basement.

  • Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.

  • Sometime years before, I had dragged an old bean bag chair to that place. I watched Zach sink onto it, and then he pulled me down to lean against him. I felt his arms go around me, holding me tight. I was safe. I was warm. I was home.

  • Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

  • We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

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