25 quotes
People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.
Editorial (1971)
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
Who Speaks for Man? (1953)
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
Human Options (1981)
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas — a place where history comes to life.
If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
Editorial (1956)
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live.
History of Sikh Struggles (1989)
Most men think they are immortal--until they get a cold, when they think they are going to die within the hour..
Human Options (1981)
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Human Options (1981)
What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.
Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1977)
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Inevitably, an individual is measured by his or her largest concerns.
Human Options (1981)
The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources — spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.
Anatomy of an Illness (1979)
We will not have peace by afterthought.
Editorial (1956)
History is a vast early warning system.
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
Anatomy of an Illness (1979)
Far more real than the ticking of time is the way we open up the minutes and invest them with meaning. Death is not the ultimate tragedy in life. The ultimate tragedy is to die without discovering the possibilities of full growth.