The Only Condition Of Peace

In My Opinion, Economists And Sociologists Are The People To Whom We Ought To Turn More Than We Do For Instruction In The Grounds And Foundations Of All Rational Decisions.

If I Had A Formula For Bypassing Trouble, I Wouldn't Pass It Around. Wouldn't Be Doing Anybody A Favor. Trouble Creates A Capacity To Handle It. I Don't Say Embrace Trouble. That's As Bad As Treating It As An Enemy. But I Do Say, Meet It As A Friend, For You'll See A Lot Of It And Had Better Be On Speaking Terms With It.

Go On, Fair Science; Soon To Thee Shall Nature Yield Her Idle Boast; Her Vulgar Lingers Formed A Tree, But Thou Hast Trained It To A Post.

Reason Means Truth And Those Who Are Not Governed By It Take The Chance That Someday The Sunken Fact Will Rip The Bottom Out Of Their Boat.

Why Should You Row A Boat Race? Why Endure The Long Months Of Pain In Preparation For A Fierce Half Hour That Will Leave You All But Dead? Does Anyone Ask The Question? Is There Anyone Who Would Not Go Through All The Costs, And More, For The Moment When Anguish Breaks Into Triumph Or Even For The Glory Of Having Nobly Lost? Is Life Less Than A Boat Race? If A Man Will Give The Blood In His Body To Win The One, Will He Spend All The Might Of His Soul To Prevail In The Other?