Isaac Chan > Isaac's Quotes

“Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.”
― Anonymous, Authorized King James Version Holy Bible

“Oh, they don't miss me," she said. "I'm anti-social, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking about things like this."

She rattled some chestnuts that had fallen off the tree in the front yard.

"Or talking about how strange the world is. Being with people is nice. But I don't think it's social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk, do you?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.”
― Shūsaku Endō, Silence

“Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible, King James Version

“Will mankind listen to any program that implies a constriction of its addiction to exosomatic comfort? Perhaps, the destiny of man is to have a short, but fiery, exciting and extravagant life rather than a long, uneventful and vegetative existence. Let other species - the amoebas, for example - which have no spiritual ambitions inherit an earth still bathed in plenty of sunshine.”
― Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Energy and economic myths: Institutional and analytical economic essays

“Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.”
― Anonymous, The Bible: King James Version

“What we call strength of mind implies the prevalence of the calm passions above the violent; though we may easily observe, that there is no person so constantly possessed of this virtue, as never, on any occasion, to yield to the solicitation of violent affection and desire.”
― David Hume, Dissertation sur les passions ; Des passions

“Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty. Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.

[Job 40: 10 - 11]”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible, King James Version

“I don't know about you, but I always enjoy my leisure time more when I feel like I've earned it, and maybe that's just in my upbringing, and maybe you can rewire people not to feel like they need to earn their leisure time, I don't know.”
― Bethany McLean

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
― Jack London

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

“The degree of intellect necessary to please us is a fairly accurate measure of the degree of our own intellect.”
― Claude Adrien Helvétius, De L'Espirit or Essays on the Mind and Its Several Faculties

“No man can see over his own height. Let me explain what I mean. You cannot see in another man any more than you have in yourself. Your own level strictly determines the extent to which he comes within your understanding. If your intelligence is unawakened, mental qualities in another, even though they be of the highest kind, will have no effect on you at all… his higher mental qualities will no more exist for you than colors exist for those who cannot see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you”
― Holy Bible, King James Version

“One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one man under aspects which few yet see.”
― Friedrich A. von Hayek, The Road to Serfdom

“MAT16.18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version

“Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.”
― Bible, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“. . . a nation is not an idea only of local extent, and individual momentary aggregation; but it is an idea of continuity, which extends in time as well as in numbers and in space. And this is a choice not only of one day, or one set of people, not a tumultuary and giddy choice; it is a deliberate election of ages and of generations; it is a constitution made by what is ten thousand times better than choice, it is made by the peculiar circumstances, occasions, tempers, dispositions, and moral, civil, and social habitudes of the people, which disclose themselves only in a long space of time. It is a vestment, which accommodates itself to the body. Nor is prescription of government formed upon blind, unmeaning prejudices—for man is a most unwise and a most wise being. The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment, is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.”
― Edmund Burke

“All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.”
― Bible, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“It is largely a consequence of the erroneous belief that there are purely economic ends separate from the other ends of life. Yet, apart from the pathological case of the miser, there is no such thing. The ultimate ends of the activities of reasonable beings are never economic. Strictly speaking, there is no 'economic motive' but only economic factors conditioning our striving for other ends.”
― Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom

“Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

“Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version

“Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.”
― Bible, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“I am a machine condemned to devour books and then throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.”
― Karl Marx

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. -John 3:16”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“a purse is but a rag unless you have something in it.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“JOH3.17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version

“Prosperity is the only foundation we can have for environmental sustainability. No one cares about climate change when you are poor.

Climate change, decarbonization, net zero, recycling, sustainability is an upper-middle-class desire. The best way we have to get this desire satisfied is to have as many upper-middle-class people as we can.”
― Jesús Fernández-Villaverde

“Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale