There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.

Biography is a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

The cynic a parasite of civilization lives by denying it for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

In order to be enchanted we must be above all capable of seeing another person simply opening ones eyes will not do.

When you are fed up with the troublesome present take your gun whistle for your dog and go out to the mountain.

One does not hunt in order to kill on the contrary one kills in order to have huntedIf one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he is after is having to win it to conquer the surly brute through

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.

An obsession is intrusive because it does not require a permit to walk into the brain.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

All we are given are possibilities to make ourselves one thing or another.

A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.

The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side. In truth, tragedy and comedy are the twin masks of history - its mass appeal.

Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which ... can be called 'public' or 'popular' opinion.

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.

The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war.

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.

Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation.

Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.