Langbehn Germany Quotes & Sayings

Golf is a game to be played between cricket and death. — Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie

Doubt frees us from illusions of having captured God in a creed; it calls into question every religious symbol. — Ian G. Barbour

The wise need the least advice,
but seek it the most.
The foolish need counsel the most,
but seek it the least. — Matshona Dhliwayo

As our sin is ever before us, so God's promise must be ever before us. As we much feel our sting, so we must look up to Christ, our "brazen serpent" (Num 21:8-9). — Thomas Watson

MY THESIS, in simplest terms, is: Let anyone do anything he pleases, so long as it is peaceful; the role of government, then, is to keep the peace ... Keeping the peace means no more than prohibiting persons from unpeaceful actions ... When government goes beyond this, that is, when government prohibits peaceful actions, such prohibitions themselves are, prima facie, unpeaceful. — Leonard E. Read

You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig. — Barack Obama

Your ego is an avid interpreter. It is so quick to interpret events as 'bad' or 'good,' 'wrong' or 'right.' It never fails to see 'the little picture. — Robert Holden

A lie well told, as the Old Singhalese adage goes, is worth a thousand facts. — John Gimlette

To see Reality is as simple as to see one's face in a mirror. Only, the mirror must be clear and true. A quiet mind, undistorted by desires and fears, free from ideas and opinions, clear on all the levels, is needed to reflect the Reality. Be clear and quiet; alert and detached, all else will happen by itself. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

If you accept a label, then you become it. So if someone wants to label you in a way that limits and controls your life, then why would you ever accept it? — Peter Baksa