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| To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder | | Uncategorized | |
| To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. | | Authority | |
| To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization. | | Uncategorized | |
| To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. | | Change; Imagination; Science | |
| To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain; to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality. | | Uncategorized | |
| To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self. | | Uncategorized | |
| Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. | | America and Americans | |
| True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. | | Uncategorized | |
| True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. | | Goodness | |
| Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. | | Uncategorized | |
| Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow. | | Understanding | |
| Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in the | | America and Americans; Pride | |
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| Watch the stars, and from them learn. To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground. | | Uncategorized | |
| We all know, from what we experience with and within ourselves, that our conscious acts spring from our desires and our fears. Intuition tells us that that is true also of our fellows and of the higher animals. We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant. We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organised that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation. At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on. All these primary impulses, not easi ly described in words, are the springs of man's actions. All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us. Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much aloke in them and in us. The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolical devices. Thought is the organising factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions. In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts. But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts. | | Uncategorized | |
| We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant. | | Uncategorized | |
| We already know that the world is far more complex, and strange, and beautiful than we thought. | | Uncategorized | |
| We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. | | Uncategorized | |
| we can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand | | Knowledge | |
| We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. | | Problems | |
