1972 in History
Births in 1972 | Deaths in 1972 |
Abraham J. Heschel | December 23 |
Harry S. Truman | December 26 |
Quotes in 1972 |
There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence - or even in life. Both may be random accidental byproducts of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.
|
|
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
|
|
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
|
|
Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash. Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.
|
|
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
|
|
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey. Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice. It is certain that nothing we have brings us happiness, but only what we are, what we feel about ourselves.
|
|
Death and life are the same thing - like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed. To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good. A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it. This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
|