“Outside the crucifixion of Jesus, the most famous death scene in all history was the death of Socrates. Ten thousand centuries from now, men will still be reading and cherishing Plato's immortal description of it – one of the most moving and beautiful passages in all literature.”
Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“‘If a man will not work he shall not eat,’ wrote St. Paul to the Thessalonians.”
Margaret Thatcher to Church of Scotland, quoted in James V. Schall Religion, Wealth and Poverty
“Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.”
Robert Louis Stevenson quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“The man who said, ‘Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed,’ put the eulogy quite inadequately and even falsely. The truth is, ‘Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.’”
G.K. Chesterton discussing George Bernard Shaw in Heretics, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 #1 (Sept. 2001)
“If belief in such [religious] truth declines in general, then that species of art can never flourish again which—like the Divine Comedy, the paintings of Raphael, the frescoes of Michelangelo, the Gothic cathedrals—presupposes not only a cosmic but a metaphysical significance in the objects of art. A moving tale will one day be told how there once existed such an art, such an artist’s faith.’”
Friedrich Nietzsche, “Human, All Too Human,” quoted by Edward T. Oakes in First Things March 2001
“Every man is a d*** fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding that limit.”
Elbert Hubbard, quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Attempts must be made to modify the institutions (legal, political, social, economic) with the objective of matching these more closely with the empirical realities of man’s moral limitations.”
James Buchanan What Should Economists Do?
“Armen Alchain once made a very important comment. He said, ‘You know, there is one thing you can trust everybody to do. You can trust everybody to put his interest above yours.’”
Milton Friedman “Economic Freedom, Human Freedom, Political Freedom.” (Inaugural address of The Smith Center November 1 1991”