"Joy is not in things; it is in us."

-- Richard Wagner

#Positivity Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a single small volume, I always chose Milton.”
“Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.”
“The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.”

Source : Paul Tournier (1978). “The Violence Within”, HarperCollins Publishers
“The parallel existence and mutual interaction of "state" and "market" in the modern world create "political economy"; without both state and market there could be no political economy.”

Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.8, Princeton University Press
“From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science has halted or strayed from the right path, it has been, either because its votaries have been content with mere unverified or unverifiable speculation (and this is the commonest case, because observation and experiment are hard work, while speculation is amusing); or it has been, because the accumulation of details of observation has for a time excluded speculation.”
“Some people thinks that I'm the Antichrist, which would be a really good disguise for the Antichrist. You'd never see a pudgy, out-of-shape guy, 5 o'clock in the afternoon, being the Antichrist, would you?”
“Every new search is a voyage to the Indies, a quest for buried treasure, a journey to the end of the rainbow; and whether or not at the end there shall be turned up a pot of gold or merely a delightful volume, there are always wonders along the way.”
“Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive”

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