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feebler
«Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
feeble, feebler, feeblest, reed, The Nature of Things
«There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
comfortable, contemptible, feeble, feebler, feeblest, myths, perils, the help, The Perils of
«Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
bare, bared, barer, bares, barest, baring, baseless, feeble, feebler, feeblest, gainsay, gainsaying, humane, improper, incredibly, mad, necessity, passions, resist, sentiments, withstand, withstanding, withstood
«I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
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«My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
able, abler, ablest, admiration, are, come to mind, consists, detailed, details, feeble, feebler, feeblest, frail, frailer, frailest, have in mind, humble, humbler, humbles, humbling, illimitable, in detail, In the, mind, minding, My Religion, of the same mind, perceive, religion, revealed religion, reveals, slight, slighted, slights, spirit, spirited, spiriting, spirit up, superior, WHO, with
«I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
after, although, body, Creation, death, Death of, feeble, feebler, feeblest, frailties, frailty, God of death, harbor, harbored, harbors, imagine, individual, in short, modeled, Model I, Model T, neither, objects, our own, punishes, purposes, reflection, rewards, ridiculous, short, souls, such, survives
«But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.»
«Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
acknowledged, acknowledges, efforts, feeble, feebler, feeblest, lifetime, lucky, maybe, noticed, someday
«'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
feeble, feebler, feeblest, support, Tis
