H.W. Charles Quotes

I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter, mortal and immortal. I am one and many -- myself and humanity in flux.

The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on depressions will be scientifically created.

I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living.

When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized.

After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

Man has risen so far above all other species that he competes in ways unique in nature. He fights by means of complicated weapons; he fights for ends remote in time.

Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

It may be interesting to note how many statesmen there are who believe that the cost of living can be reduced by making the people of other countries help to feed and clothe us.

I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?

Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.

The individual is at the apex of his species' past, at the entrance to its future.

Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.

At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.

One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all.

Now, all that I feared would happen has happened. We are at war all over the world, and we are unprepared for it from either a spiritual or a material standpoint.

We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.

Individuals are custodians of the life stream -- temporal manifestations of far greater being, forming from and returning to their essence like so many dreams.

If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded.

Peace is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection.

A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?

The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.

This is earth again, the earth where I've lived and now will live once more ... I've been to eternity and back. I know how the dead would feel to live again.

What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.

I think that music makers just really bless the planet.

Tim Price is truly blessed - he plays music because he loves it.

If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low.

'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.

Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant.

The internet is ruthless. And people are very, very happy to let you know when they don't like something.

I know that life, I’ve done all those things, and I can still tell you that just being you is perfectly fine.

Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.

I know a bigot when I see a bigot.

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture.

Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want.

I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.

I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be.

Travel tips: How to avoid carsickness, seasickness and airsickness... Be careful what you eat. And stay home.

A kiss on the nose does much toward turning aside anger.

It's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life... But I'm beginning to consider it.

Linus: What would you say you want most out of life, Charlie Brown? To be happy? CB: Oh, no. I don't expect that. I really don't. I just don't want to be unhappy!

Going to our school is an education in itself which is not to be confused with actually getting an education.

When you die, are you ever allowed to come back?" "Only if you had your hand stamped.

I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow. Maybe we should think about today..." "No, that's giving up... I'm still hpoing that yesterday will get better.

I've always been criticized, right from the beginning! Right from the very first day I was born... They said I wasn't right for the part!

Life is full of choices, but you never get any!

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and wonder if my life would be different if I had to do it over... Then a voice comes to me out of the dark that says, "boy, there's an original thought!