quotes about History And Culture

“"Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough reason for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover any reasons for this?”

“The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.”

Source : Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

“I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.”

“The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.”

“The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.”

Source : Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books

“One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.”

“I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible. I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary. No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible, and no uneducated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.”

“Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.”

“What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds. I promise”

“In this role my wish is to build our understanding of what it means to protect the rights and human dignity of all Australians. Upholding human rights is about looking out for each other, taking the idea of fairness seriously. And it goes to the heart of who we are as a nation.”