"Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking."

-- Ernest Renan

#Thinking Quotes #Opinion Quotes #Fixed Quotes

“Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.”
“Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.”
“Man without mysticism is a monster.”

Source : Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.83, Regnery Publishing
“Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer, it's probably better to kill and eat one whale than it is to eat fish, chickens, cows, lambs and eggs.”
“My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order.”
“I realized sometime in the early '80s that if I didn't do something - like planning for the future in a way, a kind of pension or something - that if I didn't do something there and then, I was going to be condemned to forever present my three years as a pop star, condensed, as a stage act for the rest of my life. Because that's normally what happens to people in the pop business.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.”
“Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted to one's own improvement and the service of all mankind.”

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