#cannot

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#cannot #establish #illusion #most #pernicious

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages. ↗

— Will Durant

#ages #cannot #ego #go #his

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. ↗

— Emile Durkheim

#cannot #causes #conditions #consequently #each

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#cannot #content #desire #each #fictions

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#cannot #cast #covet #doth #even

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#destroying #help #poor #rich #you

Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically. ↗

— Leo Bogart

#created #evaluated #may #scientifically

You cannot help little men by tearing down big men. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#cannot #down #help #little #little men

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#earn #keep #more #out #spending

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#cannot #down #him #man #raise