Dorothy Day Racial Integration Quotes & Sayings

Let us seek truth everywhere;
let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom
or its SEED. Having Found the seed,
let us scatter it to the winds of heaven.
Where ever it may blow, it will germinate.
There is no lack in this wide universe of souls
that will form the new ground. — Romain Rolland

When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which magic realism actually works is for the magic to be rooted in the real. It's both things. It's not just a fairytale moment. It's the surrealism that arises out of the real. — Salman Rushdie

The strange paradox of science is that it does not explain reality, it explains our fantasy. It is a beautiful thing. — Laren Grey Umphlett

The mathematical thermology created by Fourier may tempt us to hope that, as he has estimated the temperature of the space in which we move, me may in time ascertain the mean temperature of the heavenly bodies: but I regard this order of facts as for ever excluded from our recognition. We can never learn their internal constitution, nor, in regard to some of them, how heat is absorbed by their atmosphere. We may therefore define Astronomy as the science by which we discover the laws of the geometrical and mechanical phenomena presented by the heavenly bodies. — Auguste Comte

In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society. — Robert Kennedy

A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths. — Peter Drucker

It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes. — Loren Eiseley

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. — Gilbert Murray