Upon Quotes

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances.

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based.

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true.

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second!

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bear arms and I will remain committed to see that this freedom is not infringed upon, revoked, or limited in any way.

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.