“Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well.” HumansWellsCertainHuman NatureAmountDisciplineBehaviorEternalBuiltHorseMathematicsInvestingStuckPredictionsHuman BehaviorDiagnosisBasicsHorse Sense Author:Charlie Munger
“Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.” MenChildrenCertainAmountOffersGoodnessEternalEternityEmbraceVanityEternal Life Author:Anna Friel
“Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally amounts to being free from things we don't like in order to be enslaved by things we approve of. Here's to the eternal tandem.” ThinkingWantWholeOrderKnowingAmountEternalLiberationBeing FreeWhole TruthTandem Author:Robert Fulghum
“The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of classical Christianity. It has resulted in an incalculable amount of psychological torture, especially among children where it is employed as a terror tactic to prompt obedience.” ChildrenStillsChristianReligionBeliefChristianityAtheismAmountEternalTerrorDoctrinePsychologicalObedienceTortureTormentEmployedViciousTacticsFundamentalistPromptsDenominationsChristian Denominations Author:George H. Smith
“The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes. All change in nature amounts to this, that force can change its form and locality, without its quantity being changed. The universe possesses, once for all, a store of force which is not altered by any change of phenomena, can neither be increased nor diminished, and which maintains any change which takes place on it.” WholeFormScienceUniverseForceChangedAmountEternalCapableRemainsStoresQuantityAlteredLocality Book:Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects Source: Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects