Exercise Quotes - Page 24

• Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Mind, Body, May

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Wise, Eye, Men

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Authority, Know How, Knows

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• If the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to "demand" its exercise from every sane person, no matter how erudite or ignorant, intelligent or stupid, he may happen to be. Kant in this respect almost alone among the philosophers was much bothered by the common opinion that philosophy is only for the few, precisely because of its moral implications.

  Hannah Arendt

  Stupid, Philosophy, Intelligent

  "The Life of the Mind". Book by Hannah Arendt, p. 13, 1978.

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• Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Country, Freedom, Pride

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• So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.

  Erving Goffman

  Taken, Mean, Trials

  Erving Goffman (1981). “Forms of Talk”, p.1, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• If the Latter-day Saints will walk up to their privileges, and exercise faith in the name of Jesus Christ, and live in the enjoyment of the fullness of the Holy Ghost constantly day by day, there is nothing on the face of the earth that they could ask for, that would not be given to them. The Lord is waiting to be very gracious unto this people, and to pour out upon them riches, honor, glory, and power, even that they may possess all things according to the promises He has made through His apostles and prophets.

  Brigham Young

  Jesus, Names, People

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• Courts are the mere instruments of the law, and can will nothing. When they are said to exercise a discretion, it is a mere legal discretion, a discretion to be exercised in discerning the course prescribed by law; and, when that is discerned, it is the duty of the Court to follow it. Judicial power is never exericised for the purpose of giving effect to the will of the Judge; always for the purpose of giving effect to the will of the Legislature; or, in other words, to the will of the law.

  John Marshall

  Law, Judging, Giving

  Osborn v. Bank of the United States, 22 U.S. (9 Wheaton) 738, 866, 1824.

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• I don't think that there's substantiated evidence that shows that voter fraud is such a rampant problem that we have to put in place measures that people have to pass in order to exercise that constitutional free right. Voting should be -- and is required to be -- a right that is unencumbered. That does not have tests that people must pass.... Anything put in place to restrict that right, or to make it more difficult for people to exercise it, should be outlawed, and should not be allowed.

  Clay Aiken

  Thinking, Order, People

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• I try to exercise in nature, and I try to play golf once a month. The last time I played golf with my wife, however, she got better scores than me, which became an additional source of stress.

  Shinzo Abe

  Stress, Golf, Play

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• I am a patriot. I would think there are no politicians who are not patriots. Since I am a politician, I often get criticized, as I try to exercise what I believe to be right. However, if you mind such criticism, I think you can't protect people's lives.

  Shinzo Abe

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid to a father, a wife, or child. In the same manner, though our love should reach to the whole species, a greater proportion of it should exert itself towards that community in which Providence has placed us. This is our proper sphere of action, the province allotted us for the exercise of our civil virtues, and in which alone we have opportunities of expressing our goodwill to mankind.

  Joseph Addison

  Children, Father, Opportunity

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.187

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• Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come to be so closely linked in our minds with the actions in conjunction with which we have made it our duty to exercise them that if we come to engage in an activity of a different kind, it catches us off guard and without the slightest awareness that it might involve the application of those same virtues.

  Marcel Proust

  Mind, Quality, Different

  Marcel Proust (2010). “In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 2: Within a Budding Grove”, p.2, Random House

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• We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.

  Plato

  Mind, Body, Joints

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• Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Liberty, May

  "Social Statics, or The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed" by Herbert Spencer, (Pt. II, Ch. 4 : Derivation of a First Principle, § 3), 1851.

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• We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have an inviolable right to express their unbridled thoughts on all topics and personalities, being liable only for the abuse of that right.

  William Randolph Hearst

  People, Personality, Use

  Platform, Independent League; "New York Journal-American", February 1, 1924.

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• Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.

  Camille Paglia

  Party, Black, Tea

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.181, Vintage

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• Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it.

  Lionel Trilling

  Children, Judging, Adults

  "Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning (Freud: Within and Beyond Culture)". Book by Lionel Trilling, 1965.

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• Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature.

  Lionel Trilling

  Religious, Age, Literature

  "The Portable Matthew Arnold " by Lionel Trilling, Viking Press, 1949.

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• There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe. And yet there are very few, that will give themselves the trouble to consider the original and foundation of this right.

  William Blackstone

  Men, Imagination, Giving

  William Blackstone (2016). “The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book II: Of the Rights of Things”, p.57, Oxford University Press

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• I do not believe indeed, I deem it a comic blunder to believe that the exercise of reason is sufficient to explain our condition and where necessary to remedy it, but I do believe that the exercise of reason is at all times necessary.

  Peter Medawar

  Believe, Reason, Comic

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.210, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The good bodybuilders have the same mind ... that a sculptor has. If you analyze it, you look in the mirror and you say, okay, I need a bit more deltoids ... so that the proportion's right, and ... you exercise and put those deltoids on, whereas an artist would just slap on some clay on each side.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Artist, Mirrors, Mind

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• The whole life of Christians ought to be an exercise of piety, since they are called to sanctification. It is the office of the law to remind them of their duty and thereby to excite them to the pursuit of holiness and integrity. But when their consciences are solicitous how God may be propitiated, what answer they shall make, and on what they shall rest their confidence, if called to his tribunal, there must then be no consideration of the requisitions of the law, but Christ alone must be proposed for righteousness, who exceeds all the perfection of the law.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Integrity, Law

  John Calvin (1985). “On God and Political Duty: Calvin”, Prentice Hall

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• I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of ... shall we say, power.

  Alan Lightman

  Thinking, Permit, Appeals

  Alan Lightman (2012). “Mr g: A Novel About the Creation”, p.25, Vintage

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• One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.

  Michel Foucault

  Character, Power, Trying

  Michael Kelly, Michel Foucault (1994). “Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate”, p.35, MIT Press

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