My philosophy on getting knocked out is that it renders you unconscious and numb, so why worry about it.
Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.
It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.
All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.
The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.
Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible.
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.
Justice renders to every one his due.
The almost Oriental politeness of the West Coast is one of its distinctive regional features, in marked contrast to the contentiousness of the East Coast. . . . So few human contacts in Los Angeles go unmediated by glass (either a TV screen or an automobile windshield), that the direct confrontation renders the participants docile, stunned, sweet.
A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.
That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.
. . that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species.
This [a surprise attack] is an operation by no means to be despised in war, although it is rare, and less brilliant than a great strategic combination which renders victory certain even before the battle is fought.
The person who sows a single beautiful thought in the mind of another, renders the world a greater service than that rendered by all the faultfinders combined.
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.
