May Quotes - Page 29

• A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements, but not with a corresponding degree of strength, though it is deficient only in the power of maintaining equilibrium. We may therefore say that such an instrument constructed by man is lacking in nothing except the life of the bird, and this life must needs be supplied from that of man.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Airplane, Science

  The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (translation by Edward MacCurdy)

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• The mathematician of to-day admits that he can neither square the circle, duplicate the cube or trisect the angle. May not our mechanicians, in like manner, be ultimately forced to admit that aerial flight is one of that great class of problems with which men can never cope... I do not claim that this is a necessary conclusion from any past experience. But I do think that success must await progress of a different kind from that of invention.

  Simon Newcomb

  Airplane, Past, Men

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• There are two main reasons why we may not be bringing forth the fruit we should. It may be because of ignorance, because we may never have been taught the meaning of the work of Christ for our present lives.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Ignorance, Two

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.75, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Seek the truly practical life, but seek it in such a way that it does not blind you to the spirit working in it. Seek the spirit, but seek it not out of spiritual greed, but so that you may apply it in the genuinely practical life.

  Rudolf Steiner

  God, Spiritual, Greed

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• There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

  Francis Bacon

  Spring, Fall, Autumn

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.105, Jazzybee Verlag

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• At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Writing, Thinking, Spirituality

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.165, A&C Black

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• The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.

  Alan Watts

  Self, Spirituality, Individual

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.56, Souvenir Press

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• An infant prodigy of nine is shoved upon the stage in white. She starts off in a dismal whine about a dark and stormy night, a burglar, whose heart is true, despite his wicked-looking face, who puts the little child in doom, to save her mamma's jewel case. This may bring tears to every eye; it does not set my heart on fire. I'd like to stand serenely by and watch that horrid child expire.

  Noel Coward

  Children, Heart, Eye

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• Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish any better reason why what we call good is preferable to what we call evil than we had before. Some day, I doubt not, we shall arrive at an understanding of the evolution of the aesthetic faculty; but all the understanding in the world will neither increase nor diminish the force of the intuition that this is beautiful and that is ugly.

  Thomas Huxley

  Beautiful, Men, Evil

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

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• The human race has reached a turning point. Man has opened the secrets of nature and mastered new powers. If he uses them wisely, he can reach new heights of civilization. If he uses them foolishly, they may destroy him. Man must create the moral and legal framework for the world which will insure that his new powers are used for good and not for evil.

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, Civilization, Race

  Harry S. Truman, Howard B. Furer, United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman) (1970). “Harry S. Truman, 1884- : chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

  Isaac Watts

  Age, Fancy, Humour

  Isaac Watts (1826). “The Improvement of the Mind; with a Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth”, p.19

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• When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do all the postures, but if the mind goes on functioning, if you go on thinking, you are not in yoga. Yoga is the state of no-mind. If you can be without the mind without doing any posture, you have become a perfect yogi. It has happened to many without doing any postures, and it has not happened to many who have been doing postures for many lives.

  Rajneesh

  Wise, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we may lose it by a sudden removal.

  John Calvin

  Country, Believe, Heaven

  John Calvin (2013). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 2: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.57, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

  John Milton

  Riches, Soil, Wealth

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 690 (1667)

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• 'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Power, Riches, Wealth

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.114, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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• The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.

  Eustace Budgell

  Gratitude, People, Way

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• Let him avoid ,the acquisition of wealth and ,the gratification of his desires, if they are opposed to the sacred law, and even lawful acts which may cause pain in the future or are offensive to men.

  Guru Nanak

  Pain, Men, Law

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• It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.

  Mark Twain

  Age, Firsts, Youth

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• Love not what you are but only what you may become.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Love, Vision

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• "Chaunt in his ear delusions magical,
  That he may fight the horses of the sea."
  The Druids took them to their mystery,
  And chaunted for three days.

  William Butler Yeats

  Horse, Fighting, Sea

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Goal, Historical, Fantasy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am - Somebody. I may be poor, but I am - Somebody! I may be on welfare, but I am - Somebody! I may be uneducated, but I am - Somebody! I must be, I'm God's child. I must be respected and protected. I am black and I am beautiful! I am - Somebody! Soul Power!

  Jesse Jackson

  Beautiful, Children, Soul

  "Jesse Jackson: Civil Rights Leader and Politican". Book by Robert E. Jakoubek, Gloria Blakely, 2009.

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• We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Unjust, Civil Rights

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.100, Beacon Press

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• People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Compassion, Fire, Feet

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• No matter how low down you are; no matter what your disposition has been; you may be low in your thoughts, words, and actions; you may be selfish; your heart may be overflowing with corruption and wickedness; yet Jesus will have compassion upon you. He will speak comforting words to you; not treat you coldly or spurn you, as perhaps those of earth would, but will speak tender words, and words of love and affection and kindness. Just come at once. He is a faithful friend - a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Jesus, Brother, Kindness

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