The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.
Everyone does things differently on offense. Everyone's goal is to score points.
I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art, and art as his tool. A product of the marketplace sensibility, this attitude barely differs on a psychological plane from the patron's view of the artist as a paid employee.
Why make things difficult? Why have tough times when it's not necessary?
At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.
All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four.
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
You can achieve difficult things, but you can't achieve the impossible.
I remember in the first part of the race I was sixth and I could have gone quicker, but I had to go slow. It was one of the most difficult things I have ever done.
Once you have a felony conviction on your record, one of the most difficult things to do is to break the cycle of recidivism.
For me, human beings have a very difficult time changing. It's one of the hardest things to do.
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
I don't digest things with my mind.
The thing is, if you follow whatever meal you have with Coke, it eats up the other things. It helps with the digestion of it.
We have the wrong impression of life. We think the very big incidents of our lives are consequences of huge dilemmas or major decisions. If we paid attention, we'd realize that the determining incidents in our lives are ordinary things.
The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
