#hr

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#being #first #opposed #passes #ridiculed

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#domain #doors #fellow #felt #itself

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#down #fastest #throne #travels #up

We had a one bedroom, one bathroom, one closet apartment with four girls. ↗

— Connie Sellecca

#bathroom #bedroom #closet #four #had

My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else. ↗

— William Shatner

#else #everything #grandchildren #horses #kids

Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen." (Reply to the Diet of Worms, April 18, 1521) ↗

— Martin Luther

#christian #conscience #freedom-of-religion #freedom-of-thought #organized-religion

I think people throughout the world identify with my characters. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#i #i think #identify #people #think

Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#express #growing #growing up #heavily #i

Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#brethren #highly #holy #holy land #israel

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. ↗

— Peter Singer

#changed #engine #internet #like #steam