The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have
Quotes
Henry David Thoreau
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but an improved means to an unimproved
Henry Miller
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
Pope St. Sixtus I, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 115-125
The body is the soul’s image; therefore keep it pure.
Victor Cousin
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the
Warren Buffett
It has been far safer to steal large sums with a pen than small sums with a gun.
Robert Heinlein
The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
Vince Lombardi
The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the
Ayn Rand
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life,
Aldous Huxley
The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.