Andreas > Andreas's Quotes

“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.
We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.”
― Mother Teresa

“When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

“I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, D’Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.

[Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“The tumalt and shouting dies,
The captains and the kings depart.
Still stands thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heat.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget, lest we forget.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur."

If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.”
― Horace

“Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus

“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
― Edmund Burke

“I believe that in the end truth will conquer”
― John Wycliffe

“Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

“Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.”
― Oswald Chambers

“The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness”
― Edward Gibbon

“The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes”
― Adolf Hitler

“One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the Twentieth Century.”
― Jack the Ripper, Das Tagebuch von Jack the Ripper

“I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. ”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

[Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963]”
― John F. Kennedy

“Whoever controls the media, the
images, controls the culture.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.”
― Pierre Dos Utt, Tanstaafl: A Plan for a New Economic World Order

“There are no free lunches in philosophy any more than in real life.”
― Jaegwon Kim, Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation

“I'm always brilliant after the fact.”
― Shelly Fredman, No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

“The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.”
― Mother Teresa of Calcutta

“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.”
― Mother Teresa