"I pass with relief from the tossing..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.
More by Winston Churchill
“Is it possible to get another key? I think I've left mine in the room.”
“Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.”
“In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.”
More on Logic
“If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?”
“Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.”
“Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.”
More on Reality
“The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."”
“"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".”
“You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.”