Friedrich Schleiermacher

Friedrich Schleiermacher (c. 1768-1834)

"This infinite chaos, where of course every point represents a world, is as such actually the most suitable and highest symbol of religion. In religion, as in this chaos, only the particular is true and necessary; nothing can or may be proved anything else."

• From Friedrich Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (second speech), translated by Richard Crouter (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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Sir Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill (c. 1874-1965)

"We desire to see the return of a liberal age where Parliaments will guard freedom, where science will open the banqueting halls to the millions, and where what Bismarck once called 'practical Christianity' will mitigate suffering and misfortunes."

• From Sir Winston Churchill's "No Intervention In Spain" (January 8, 1937), in Winston S. Churchill Step By Step: Political Writings 1936-1939 (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015).

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"If what most men admire
they would despise,
It would look as if mankind
were growing wise."

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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Friedrich Schleiermacher

Friedrich Schleiermacher (c. 1768-1834)

"All religious feelings are supernatural, for they are religious only insofar as they are produced directly by the universe; whether they are religious in oneself, each person must judge best."

• From Friedrich Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (second speech), translated by Richard Crouter (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Owing to the helplessness and subservience of democracy in the hands of ambitious and commanding men, added to the facilities of modern locomotion and propaganda, many communities have been plunged back into a state of insecurity hitherto only associated with barbarism."

• From Sir Winston Churchill's "Europe's Peace" (February 5, 1937), in Winston S. Churchill Step By Step: Political Writings 1936-1939 (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015).

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Friedrich Schleiermacher

Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834)

"Eternal humanity is unweariedly busy in creating and in representing itself in the most varied ways in the provisional appearance of finite life."

• From Friedrich Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (second speech), translated by Richard Crouter (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"The noblest question in the world is
What good may I do in it?"

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"The hate-culture continues, fostered by printing-press and broadcast — the very instruments, in fact, which philosophers might have hoped would liberate mankind from such perils."

• From Sir Winston Churchill's "Europe's Peace" (February 5, 1937), in Winston S. Churchill Step By Step: Political Writings 1936-1939 (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015).

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"Half the truth is often a great lie."

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"Don't throw stones at your neighbors' of your own windows are glass."

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that have no wit enough to be honest."

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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Mark Twain

Mark Twain (c. 1835-1910)

"In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain."

• From the The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Chapter II), by Mark Tain (originally published 1876).

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (c. 1809-1849)

"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence; they must not--they cannot at will be excited with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind."

• From Edgar Allan Poe's preface to The Raven and Other Poems (c. 1845) in Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Works (JKL Classics, 2017).

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Mark Twain

Samuel Clemens (alias Mark Twain, c. 1835-1910)

"Although my book is intended  mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes ingaged in"

• From the preface of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Tain (originally published 1876). 

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

"I sometimes think that good readers are poets as singular, and as awesome, as great authors themselves."

• From Jorge Luis Borges' preface to A Universal History of Iniquity (originally published c. 1935), translated by Andrew Hurley in Jorge Luis Borges: Collected Fictions (Penguin Classics, 1998).

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George Orwell

George Orwell (c. 1903-1950)

"The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degredation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency."

• From Homage to Catalonia (Chapter 12) written by George Orwell and edited by Adam Hochschild and Lionel Trilling (Mariner Books, 1969).

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General Curtis E. LeMay

General Curtis LeMay (c. 1906-1990)

"The best way to lead a mission was to stand between the pilot and co-pilot. You got a good view there, and had no immediate manual task - nothing to do in the aircraft you were flying in - nothing to do except control the entire formation."

• Mission with LeMay: My Story, by Curtis LeMay and MacKinlay Kantor (Doubleday & Company, 1965).  

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"Silence is not always a sign of wisdom but babbling is ever a mark of folly."

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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General Curtis E. LeMay

General Curtis LeMay (c. 1906-1990)

"I'd rather be active, doing almost any demanding interesting thing in the world, than participating in social activities."

• Gen. LeMay wrote this quote bemoaning the social responsibilities of his position as Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force in his autobiographical work, Mission with LeMay: My Story, by Curtis LeMay and MacKinlay Kantor (Doubleday & Company, 1965).

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