In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite. . . Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka.
A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?
I always know where the scissors are.
A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will come when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them.
A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.
I won't say if I'm single or dating or married or divorced. There's boundaries.
I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.
If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.
For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.
Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow continuously one upon the other through inconceivable periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction.
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.
When men struggle for the single life God has given them. . . even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.
You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.
These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit formed in response to a given stimulus will necessarily affect the character of the response made to other stimuli. A modification of human nature at any one point is a modification of human nature as a whole.
Marriage is ridiculous.
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably. . . have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.
Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves.
If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.