Hendrick Van Loon Quotes & Sayings

Feigheit wird manchmal belohnt. — Benoite Groult

When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart. — Pema Chodron

Enlightenment is a paradoxical phenomenon. You need to be commited to become enlightenment, and to do whatever is necessary to make it happen. But at the same time you can not force enlightenment to happen by sheer will. It is like the situation with happiness: you can not force happiness to happen, but you can create the right circumstances for happiness to
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You need to be willing to die, to let go of your limited sense of "I", to achieve enlightenment. I can feel a deepening thirst to die, to dissolve into the silence, in my heart and being. — Swami Dhyan Giten

I am not a wishing well with legs.
(Paraphrasing Babylon 5's Londo Mollari, repeately, when asked to perform hacking functions for strangers.) — Adrian Lamo

What I have always loved most in men is imperfection. — Linn Ullmann

To our dismay, users who had been enduring several hour waits between jobs run under batch processing were suddenly restless when response times were more than a second. — Fernando J. Corbato

New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her Hudson, and Fulton long since invented the steamboat on its waters, an Indian is still necessary to guide her scientific men to its headwaters in the Adirondack country. — Henry David Thoreau

One minute sweet and nice, like a lovable little kitten, the next she'd give you a pop in the jaw if you say the wrong thing. — Kiki Hamilton

It certainly was," Klaus agreed, not adding that he had known the word "superlative" since he was eleven. "I see that just about every evening," Hector said, "and it always impresses me. It always makes me hungry, — Lemony Snicket

You need to have the means to impose yourself — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Most of the centenarians whom I have been able to see have been so defective mentally that all that can be studied in them are the physical qualities and functions. — Elie Metchnikoff

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Descriptive statistics exist to simplify, which always implies some loss of nuance or detail. — Charles Wheelan