It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Interpretation
Challenges diminish when confronted with courage and confidence.
This quote emphasizes the importance of approaching life's difficulties with boldness and confidence. Isaac Asimov suggests that rather than allowing fears or challenges to overwhelm us, we should face them directly. By doing so, we can often find that the difficulties we encounter become less daunting and may even dissipate altogether.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.
Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.
A precedent embalms a principle.
Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
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