Quotes for All
Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah. Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result… Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values. Emanuel Lasker
I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself. Elizabeth Fry
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it Elbert Hubbard
I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind. Edward Jenner
Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed. Edmund Burke
Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for? Friedrich August von Hayek
To discover the meaning of what is called \”social justice\” has been one of my chief preoccupations for more than 10 years. I have failed in this endeavour or rather, have reached the conclusion that, with reference to society of free men, the phrase has no meaning whatever. Friedrich August von Hayek
Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness. Franz Liszt
It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according to culture-all reflect the historical development of races from different standpoints; and that the results of the three classifications are not comparable, because the historical facts do not affect the three classes of … Read more