Kibbutz Lavi Quotes & Sayings

You must know what life is. One can do no good by shutting one's eyes to everything that doesn't square with a shoddy, false ideal. — W. Somerset Maugham

Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace. — Nhat Hanh

The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted. — Charles Babbage

Like instinctively; love differently; lust indefinitely. — DNC

If we no longer talk freely and openly about faith, we won't understand the language or the significance of faith, we'll misinterpret the religious words and deeds of others, and we'll underestimate the power faith can have in the lives of those deeply committed to their spiritual beliefs. This may present a serious risk to a generation whose most troubling conflicts promise to involve people who are primarily motivated by a very different faith. If we don't understand the faith roots of our American culture, how will we be able to defend it against theirs? — Ben Carson

I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it. — William Faulkner

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists. — Richard Thompson

Many a poor sore-eyed student that I have heard of would grow faster, both intellectually and physically, if, instead of sitting up so very late, he honestly slumbered a fool's allowance. — Henry David Thoreau

Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To the extent to which this experience comes to rest with the things as they appear and happen to be, it is a limited and even false experience. It attains its truth if it has freed itself from the deceptive objectivity which conceals the factors behind the facts that is, if it understands its world as a historical universe, in which the established facts are the work of the historical practice of man. — Herbert Marcuse

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man. — Lawrence Block

Mr. Garner confessed to having a live-and-let-live attitude with the caveat that when he was pushed, he shoved back. — Anonymous