A Dictionary of Thought Quotes

“Life is rather a short walk through eternity. Be they seeds, pups or infants, on the trek all pick up weight, sensitivity and awareness. Then, much before the end of the run, they deteriorate, head, legs and lungs. The tragicomedy of existence: the long walk of slow decay.”
― Dagobert D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought

“That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.”
― Dagobert D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought

“Pain is always a fanged serpent, but to the fearful it has a hundred heads.”
― Dagobert D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought

“Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love.”
― Dagobert D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought

“The ancient Hebrews did not write the name of God. I often wish the Christians would follow suit, as never was a word more misused in writing and speaking than the name of the Lord.”
― Dagobert D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought

“Science began with a gadget and a trick. The gadget was the wheel; the trick was fire. We have come a long way from the two-wheel cart to the round-the-world transport plane, or from the sparking flint to man-made nuclear fission. Yet I wonder whether the inhabitants of Hiroshima were more aware of the evolution of science than ancient man facing an on-storming battle chariot.
It isn't physics that will make this a better life, nor chemistry, nor sociology. Physics may be used to atom-bomb a nation and chemistry may be used to poison a city and sociology has been used to drive people and classes against classes. Science is only an instrument, no more than a stick or fire or water that can be used to lean on or light or refresh, and also can be used to flail or burn or drown. Knowledge without morals is a beast on the loose.”
― Dagobert D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought

“Whatever betterment we have today was carved out of a world of stone by men of the hammer, not men of hope.”
― Dagobert D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought

“Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar.”
― Dagobert D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought

“The best grammarian still can't write a verse.”
― Dagobert D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought

“The Hebrews have no name for Him, the Moslems have a hundred. Both suggest the same thing, that there are concepts as well as emotions that can be communicated only allegorically.”
― Dagobert D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought

“Faith is the belief in the invisible. It would be a dull world, indeed, if only the visible were reality.”
― Dagobert D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought

“Faith is nothing but knowledge that what we understand is only a shadow of the Unknown. Faith is the science of the pitiful limitations of man's mental scope.”
― Dagobert D. Runes , A Dictionary of Thought