The greater the tension, the greater is the potential. Great energy springs from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychologist
“Paracelsus as a Spiritual Phenomenon,” introduction (1942), Alchemical Studies [tr. R. Hull (1967)]
We are all children of one and the same God and, therefore, absolutely equal.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian philosopher and nationalist [b. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]
Harijan (2 Feb 1934)
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
Dean William Ralph Inge (1860-1954) English prelate
“The Training of Reason” (1918)
In A. C. Benson (ed.), Cambridge Essays on Education (1918)
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1900-1965) American politician
Speech, University of Wisconsin, Madison (8 Oct 1952)
This is a pleasant surprise, Archie. I would not have believed it. That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
Rex Stout (1886-1975) American writer
Fer-de-Lance, ch. 1 [Wolfe] (1934)
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