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Letter "F" » fundamental
«Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.»
Author: Alan Watts
(Interpreter, Thinker, Writer)
| About:
Life,
Meaning,
Philosophy,
Universe,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
fundamental, go together, secrets
«No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
alcohol, drug, drugs, fundamental, greed, ills, The Source, troubles
«Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.»
«Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.»
Author: Eugene Ionesco
| Keywords:
astonishment, estranged, estranges, estranging, falsified, falsifies, falsify, falsifying, fundamental, obsessions, perspective, presents, realism, reduced, shrinks, socialist, socialists, take into account, The Socialist
«Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
fundamental, human mind, Human resources, resource, swifter, swiftest
«That was one of the things that worried me - to be raised to the position of a semi-god - because then you are no longer a human being. I wanted to be known as Mandela, a man with weaknesses, some of which are fundamental, and a man who is committed,»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
God,
Men
| Keywords:
fundamental, known as, Mandela, raised, semi, weaknesses, worried
«No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
Government,
Liberty
| Keywords:
adherence, blessings, firm, frequent, frequented, frequenting, frequents, frugality, fundamental, fundamental principle, moderation, preserved, recurrence, recurrences, temperance
«Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is morally desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
| About:
Suicide
| Keywords:
desirable, fundamental, human right, interfere, morally, Moral right, suicide
«Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Evil,
Life,
Morality,
Principles
| Keywords:
affords, assisted, assisting, assists, enhancing, fundamental, fundamental principle, hinder, hindered, Maintaining, namely, reverence
«Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.»
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