1. “Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.”
2. “Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.”
3. “Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.”
4. “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.”
5. “To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to one’s self, to one’s country, to society, and to civilization itself.”
6. “It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.”
7. “The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. left to itself. left to itself, it is always self-regulated.”
8. “If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.”
9. “The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.”
10. “Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.”
11. “The wilderness an the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.”
12. “Poetry, mythology and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.”
13. “Cats sem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.”
14. “In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.”
15. “Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude and vice versa.”
16. “Anxiety an distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normall course of man’s existence.”
17. “Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.”
18. “Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; very time one dies some part of that meaning passes away.”
19. “In a cat’s eye, all things belong to cats.”
20. “Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can o without.”
21. “there is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.”
22. “The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.”
23. “Love is… not a fact in nature of which e become aware, but rather a creation of human imagination .”
24. “Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.”
25. “Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.”
26. “There is non conceivable human action which custom has not one time justified and at another condemned.”
27. “The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.”
28. “A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.”
29. “Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature an morality takes no account of the art in life.”
30. “An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere is small.”
