Occupation: Statesman Birth: May 24, 1870 Death: September 11, 1950
Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe..
When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist..
Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day..
This is a good world. We need not approve of all the items in it, nor of all the individuals in it; but the world itself-which is more than its parts….
When in doubt, do the courageous thing..
History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels..
A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself.
Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings..
If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites hav….
Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own….
The intimate rapport with nature is one of the most precious things in life. Nature is indeed very close to us; sometimes closer than hands and feet,….
In spite of the great advances which have been made in our knowledge, some fundamental gaps remain. Matter, life and mind still remain utter disparat….
To me the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the vision of God. That story of the human rise to ….
If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation's mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nation's needs..
The mountain is not something eternally sublime; it has a great historic and spiritual meaning to us. It stands for us as the ladder of life. Nay, mo….
What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away wi….
...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest l….