"States are as the men, they grow out of human characters."

-- Plato

#Plato Quotes #Character Quotes #Men Quotes

“There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.”
“While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning, what the religious traditions of mankind have said forms a coherent body of thought. . . . There is recompense for suffering.Â A principle beyond selfishness is at work in the cosmos. .Â . I do not know whether any of this is true.Â I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false.”

Source : David Berlinski (2010). “The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I can only speak for myself but for me imagination and invention cannot generate something more important, more beautiful and more terrifying than the common object, amplified by the attention that we give it. An object alone, in front of me who is alone, exactly in front of me just as I would like to have in front of me someone who really interests me, in a good light to better observe it.”

Source : Source: observer.com
“In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.”
“He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.”

Source : Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.214
“It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.”
“Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.”
“The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The Self is present as Pure Presence, not as everlasting duration, a rather horrible notion.”

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