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Quotes by British Authors
"The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages , they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil."
"Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!"
"The internet and online communication is the window into your world - but real life, in person communication / connection is the door."
"When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness."
"If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you."
"Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words."
"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."
"Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear."
"The existence of law is one thing; its merit or demerit is another."
"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."
"The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization."
"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."
"Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant."
"Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement."
"Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them."
"I may not understand, but I am willing to admire."
"Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place."
"In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers."
"I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored."
"Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow."
"No matter how eloquently a dog may bark he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest."
"Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it."
"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians."
"A normal fighter in the street fights in a different way than a disciplined boxer, but a boxer is from the other world, it's a big difference. A boxer can throw a six-inch punch. A six-inch punch can knock you clean down. I'm very wary of those boxers, I can tell you. If you get a boxer that can street fight and he mixes it together then it makes a lethal combination! I mixed boxing and street fighting in to a cocktail and when I knocked them down I kept them down by use of the boot."
"There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance."
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
"I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No."
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