Quotes to Stay Determined · Page 169

Fierce words to fuel your drive and remind you nothing can stop you.

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“Softly along the road of evening, In a twilight dim with rose, Wrinkled with age, and drenched with dew Old Nod, the shepherd, goes.”

— Walter de la Mare

“"Is anybody there?" said the Traveler, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest's ferny floor.”

— Walter de la Mare

“The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is…”

— Louis Pasteur

“Here is an infusion of organic matter, as limpid as distilled water, and extremely alterable. It has been prepared to-day. To-morrow it will contain animalculae, little…”

— Louis Pasteur

“Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid.”

— Louis Pasteur

“Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?”

— Louis Pasteur

“The greatness of human actions is measured by the inspiration that it brings.”

— Louis Pasteur

“Certain details will age, as do the fashions of another time, but the foundation, the method, constitute one of those great aspects of the human mind, the majesty of which is only…”

— Louis Pasteur

“When evening comes, I return home and enter my study; on the threshold I take off my workday clothes, covered with mud and dirt, and put on the garments of court and palace.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“In judging policies we should consider the results that have been achieved through them rather than the means by which they have been executed.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Whenever men are not obliged to fight from necessity, they fight from ambition; which is so powerful in human breasts, that it never leaves them no matter to what rank they rise.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“It was the verdict of ancient writers that men afflict themselves in evil and weary themselves in the good, and that the same effects result from both of these passions.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Anyone who studies present and ancient affairs will easily see how in all cities and all peoples there still exist, and have always existed, the same desires and passions.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it; that they may weave its warp, but cannot break it.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Discipline in war counts more than fury.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“A hundred facts testify to how great an extent the East was mingled with Hellenic thought during the second century of our era.”

— Romain Rolland

“Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas.”

— Romain Rolland

“The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world.”

— Romain Rolland

“Never having been hampered by a priestly order, each man has been entirely free to search wherever he pleased for the spiritual explanation of the spectacle of the universe.”

— Romain Rolland

“Such tolerance may be surprising to religious believers in the West, but it is an integral part of Vedantic belief.”

— Romain Rolland

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