Arthur Helps Quotes

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

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• In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Courage

• Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Good
  • Democracy
  • Process

• While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Practice

• I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world.

  

  Angela Davis
  • World
  • Food
  • Engagement

• It's no wonder that America's engagement in the region has strong, sustained, bipartisan support. So I'll be handing my successor a strong foundation - including closer ties with Singapore - on which to continue building, and I'm optimistic that will happen.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Strong
  • Support

• Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the walk.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Life
  • Path
  • Walking

• The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Long
  • Community
  • Progress

• With everything you're letting go, I'm sure it's going to have a different value to you. And every time you let go you're going to be a different age or there's going to be different circumstances. So I think the best way to do it is to simply wish the best for that thing.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Time
  • Different
  • Thinking

• The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.

  

  Hal Duncan

• I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Brain
  • Alcohol
  • Poison

• The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Opportunity
  • Opinion
  • Generation

• Everyone must be equal before the law, abide by it, pay their taxes and bear the punishment should they break the law.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Break
  • Equal
  • Taxes

• Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible pianist; Lee Konitz, the luminous alto sax player; and Warne Marsh, the tenor player who captured some of the most beautiful sounds in the world.

  

  Carolyn See
  • World
  • Jazz
  • Sounds

• I rarely exercise at all, except I have some hand weights that I'll lift idly while I'm watching TV. I did do some push-ups last week and somehow hurt my shoulder.

  

  Nick Antosca
  • Hurt
  • Exercise
  • Hands

• Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Enjoyment
  • Selfishness
  • Destroys

• If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are so well acquainted, does it not merit praise instead of penalty Christians were punished for not worshiping Roman gods that we have rejected what we have come to see is error? We cannot surely be made out to injure those whom we are certain are nonentities. What does not exist is in its nonexistence secure from suffering.

  

  Tertullian
  • Christians
  • Error
  • Images

• I just can't get used to life.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Life
  • Used

• Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Selfishness
  • Punished
  • Egotism