Occupation: Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom Birth: July 25, 1848 Death: March 19, 1930
And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to….
His Majesty's Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews..
I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for h….
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles..
I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now..
Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare ….
I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained..
There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared..
His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavour….
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming..
In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all..
Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages….
Ask with urgency and passion..
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth..
I never forgive, but I always forget..
No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged..
But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of….
Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may be c….
I do not stare at a gentleman in distress..
Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?.
Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it..