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.
The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer.
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to lifeβs problems and challenges.
Because he is a living divinity, when he acts, the universe acts.
The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
History is a way of interpreting, rather than, say, knowing, the past. It is usually a set of disputes between those who have access to the same sources. It depends on ideology as much as voting in an election does.
To be white in America is to assume, with total self-confidence and little afterthought, the personal ownership of public spaces.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.