War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

Will is the dynamic soul-force.

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy of fixedness and movement which is the principle of Creation and the perpetual cause of life.

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent reason sometimes speaks.

Will is the dynamic soul force.

The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all is Fraternity.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. Be he never so benighted and forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual Despair.

What we have done for ourselves alone, dies with us. What we have done for others and the world, remains and is immortal.

The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God.

Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions.