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Category Archive: November 20

Nazim Hikmet Quote: “Living is no laughing matter: you…”

Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example – I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.

October 13, 2021 1901, Nazim Hikmet, November 20, Quotes by Poets, Turkish

Norman Thomas Quote: “The secret of a good life…”

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

October 3, 2021 1884, American, Norman Thomas, November 20, Quotes by Activists

Josiah Royce Quote: “This preparatory sort of idealism is…”

This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view.

August 26, 2021 1855, American, Josiah Royce, November 20, Quotes by Philosophers

Josiah Royce Quote: “God too longs; and because the…”

God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.

July 22, 2021 1855, American, Josiah Royce, November 20, Quotes by Philosophers

Norman Thomas Quote: “To us Americans much has been…”

To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.

June 25, 2021 1884, American, Norman Thomas, November 20, Quotes by Activists

Josiah Royce Quote: “Listen to any musical phrase or…”

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

April 27, 2021 1855, American, Josiah Royce, November 20, Quotes by Philosophers

Josiah Royce Quote: “And just because God attains and…”

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

April 24, 2021 1855, American, Josiah Royce, November 20, Quotes by Philosophers

Norman Thomas Quote: “Kennedy said that if we had…”

Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we’d kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.

March 18, 2021 1884, American, Norman Thomas, November 20, Quotes by Activists

Josiah Royce Quote: “That this individual life of all…”

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.

December 11, 2020 1855, American, Josiah Royce, November 20, Quotes by Philosophers

Josiah Royce Quote: “God is One, all our lives…”

God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.

December 11, 2020 1855, American, Josiah Royce, November 20, Quotes by Philosophers

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