Joseph Wood
Joseph Wood
atheism facts can-do
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.
children study sometimes
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.
loyalty good-life passion
Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
atheism finance can-do
Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
short-life men anxiety
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
cat animal mind
To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.
time passing-away eternity
Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.
philosophical civilization play
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
games trying losing
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.
wisdom two intelligence
Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come to realize that it is the first and less important of the two promises which it has kept most abundantly.
nature adventure men
We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.
war men ill-will
Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.
science technology men
Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.
new-year heart years
In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we plan any new leaves, it will be when the rest of Nature is planning them too.