Connection Quotes

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

What we now want most is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth and the elimination of that fanatic devotion to exalted ideals of national egoism and pride, which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife. No league or parliamentary act of any kind will ever prevent such a calamity. These are only new devices for putting the weak at the mercy of the strong.

Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness.[Le signe le plus caractéristique de la sagesse, c’est une félicité continue.]

If any one should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I feel it could no otherwise be expressed than by making answer, “Because it was he; because it was I.”[Si on me presse de dire pourquoy ie l’aymoys, ie sens que cela ne se peut exprimer, qu’en respondant: Par ce que c’estoit luy, par ce que c’estoit moy.]

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.