truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 18 January 2007 1:19 pm

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
Art Buchwald

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 19 January 2007 8:08 am

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 19 January 2007 8:09 am

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
Arnold J. Toynbee

All the creatures that God made, He made very good. And He gave to every individual the sense of free will, by which standard He also instituted the law of judgment.... And certainly whoever will, may keep the commandments. Whoever despises them and turns aside to what is contrary to them, shall yet without doubt have to face this law of judgment.... There can be no doubt that every individual, in using his own proper power of will, may shape his course in whatever direction he pleases."
Archelaus Disputation With Manes sees. 32, 33) 250-300 AD

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 19 January 2007 8:14 am

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 19 January 2007 8:15 am

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 19 January 2007 8:28 am

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 19 January 2007 8:29 am

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
Arnold J. Toynbee