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In effort Happiness idleness ...

In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort, to make work as near pleasure as it can be.

Arthur Balfour 53 quotes

I look forward to a time when...

I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.

Arthur Balfour 53 quotes

Why can't the Jews and the Ar...

Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?

Arthur Balfour 53 quotes

But science is the great inst...

But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of this dominant function, amid the din of political and religious strife, is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilisation.

Arthur Balfour 53 quotes

I do not know how it comes ab...

I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.

Arthur Balfour 53 quotes

He [A. J. Balfour] was eminent...

He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up and brushing himself down became a minor art form, ruefully admired by his contemporaries.

Arthur Balfour 53 quotes

And realize that life is the b...

And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it around. Take money...and give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a Big Brother or Sister...You want to do well, but if you do not do good too, then doing well will never be enough.

Arthur Balfour 53 quotes

It has always been desirable t...

It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

Arthur Balfour 53 quotes

I'd rather take advice from my...

I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference

Arthur Balfour 53 quotes

Why can't the Jews and the Ara...

Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?

Arthur Balfour 53 quotes

The power of authority is neve...

The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.

Arthur Balfour 53 quotes

There are plenty of cases of w...

There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.

Arthur Balfour 53 quotes

No country can allow its safet...

No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.

Arthur Balfour 53 quotes

I do not stare at a gentleman ...

I do not stare at a gentleman in distress.

Arthur Balfour 53 quotes

Imperishable moments and immor...

Imperishable moments and immortal deeds, death itself and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. The energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed and the earth tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for the moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish. The uneasy consciousness, which in this obscure corner has for a brief space broken the contented silence of the universe, will be at rest.

Arthur Balfour 53 quotes

Advice would be more acceptabl...

Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.

Arthur Balfour 53 quotes

Man, so far as natural science...

Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.

Arthur Balfour 53 quotes

The tyranny of majorities may ...

The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.

Arthur Balfour 53 quotes

Kant, as we all know, compared...

Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.

Arthur Balfour 53 quotes

His Majesty's Government looks...

His Majesty's Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews.

Arthur Balfour 53 quotes

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