“Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that they are governed by laws as inexorable as physical laws, and that a man can as easily refuse to obey what has power over him as a steel atom can resist the magnet?” MenMindSelfBodyLawRefuseAttractionAtomsSteelVaryMagnetInexorableSelf PowerSusceptibilityRepulsionAttraction And Repulsion Book:The Nemesis of Faith Source: The Nemesis of Faith
“What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows--it must grow smaller or larger, better or worse--it cannot stand still. In other words, we change--and must change, constantly, and keep on changing as long as we live. What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he's stuck in a rut.” IfsMenYearsLongStillsLawGrowsGrowthMoralHe ManStructureStuckConsistentAtomsSmallestConsistencyRutsStuck In A Rut Author:Mark Twain
“When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand in this idea. The clashing of atoms by blind chance has nothing in it fit to raise our conceptions, or to elevate the mind. But the regular structure of a vast system of beings, produced by creating power, and governed by the best laws which perfect wisdom and goodness could contrive, is a spectacle which elevates the understanding, and fills the soul with devout admiration.” WorldMindIdeasSoulLawUniverseUnderstandingChancePerfectFitGoodnessCreatingRaisesBlindStructureAdmirationConceptionAtomsContemplatingFortuitous Book:Philosophical works Source: Philosophical works
“If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law.” IfsLawLibertyPrinciplesCreationVisibleAtomsUtterance Book:Selections from the writings of John Ruskin ... With a portrait Source: Selections from the writings of John Ruskin ... With a portrait