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If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Men have forgotten this truth,’ said the fox. ‘But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.’
The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.