"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
Was it:
- Abraham Lincoln?
- William James?
- Mohandas K. Gandhi?
- Irving Berlin?
- All of the above?
- Someone else? Namely?
Extra credit if you provide another quote by any of these people.
I'll guess, Ghandi?
ReplyDeleteAbe Lincoln - "Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." :)
That's probably not the kind of quote you had in mind, though!
Ghandi - "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
My guess is Irving Berlin. Just sounds like something he would say.
ReplyDeleteAbe Lincoln: "It is better to remain silent and appear stupid then to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
Ghandi: "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
James: "The essence of genius is to know what to overlook."
I love both of those quotes!
My guess is Irving Berling but I don't know why I guessed him.
ReplyDeleteIt was William James.
ReplyDelete"To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking."
I'm more of a Carl Sagan guy, myself.
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
Brian was right on this one - it was indeed William James.
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