The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925. By Frederick Lewis Donaldson Quick View Author All Quotes, Frederick Lewis Donaldson Tag: #character, #commerce, #conscience, #happiness, #humanity, #knowledge, #misattributed-to-gandhi, #money, #morality, #pleasure, #politics, #principle, #sacrifice, #science, #sin, #sins, #wealth, #work, #worship
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. By Albert Einstein Quick View Author Albert Einstein, All Quotes Tag: #human-nature, #humor, #infinity, #philosophy, #science, #stupidity, #universe
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life. By John Lubbock Quick View Author All Quotes, John Lubbock Tag: #education, #enlightenment, #happiness, #learning, #life, #nature-art, #pleasure, #purity, #science, #training
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away. By Stephen Hawking Quick View Author All Quotes, Stephen Hawking Tag: #philosophy, #science
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. By Carl Sagan Quick View Author All Quotes, Carl Sagan Tag: #science
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents… some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age. By H.P. Lovecraft Quick View Author All Quotes, H.P. Lovecraft Tag: #comprehension, #dark-age, #dissociated, #dissociation, #human-mind, #science