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Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
Happiness is a kind of gratitude and vice versa.
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.
A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.
As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.
The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.
The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.
Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?
Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.
Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.
It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.
The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.
Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.
Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.
Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.
Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.
To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.
An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.
Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.