Fundamental Quotes

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Success lies in a masterful consistency around the fundamentals.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets.

.. They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.

The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression.

Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care.

Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited;

and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms? Stories. And they give me hope.

We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very dependent upon conjuring up visual images in order to imagine things which otherwise were not easily formulated.

The second is the structure and source of cults.

They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.

Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.

The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of the hemisphere despite the philosophical disagreements it may have with the nature of particular regimes. It must seek pragmatic ways to help people without necessarily embracing their governments. It should recognize that diplomatic relations are merely practical conveniences and not measures of moral judgment.

Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy;

and down at bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for the future.

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life.

That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

Another key element of human ecology is the inviolability of human life, especially at its beginning and its end. The Holy See insistently proclaims that the first and most fundamental of all human rights is the right to life, and that when this right is denied all other rights are threatened. The assumption that abortion and euthanasia are human rights deserving legislative sanction is seen by the Holy See as a contradiction which amounts to a denial of the human dignity and freedom which the law is supposed to protect. A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited;

and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division ;and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not daily infringed upon. We must therefore call crime necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it.

All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.

No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society.

If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

Anyway, 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.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.

Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American's capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth --the power to love --although I have put it last, is the rarest.

We are for aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we are against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We are helping 107 We spent $146 billion. With that money, we bought a 2-million-dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity.

The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.

We are great fools: He has spent his life in idleness.

We say, I have done nothing today. Really, have you not lived? This is not only the most fundamental but the most illustrious of your occupations

It's been suggested that if the supernaturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television?