There are only two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’ – C.S. Lewis
There are only two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’ – C.S. Lewis
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights
—Georg Hegel
Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don’t believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
She’s only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me.
—Immanuel Kant
There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.
—Socrates
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
—Søren Kierkegaard
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
—Thomas Jefferson
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
—Søren Kierkegaard
What’s even worse than a flute? – Two flutes!
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
There are four powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses sight, hearing, and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
—Plato
According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
—Plato
In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity.
Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together.
With these means, man can attain perfection.
—Plato
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
—Socrates
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
—Immanuel Kant
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
—Aristotle
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
—Albert Einstein
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
—Albert Einstein
A true minister of the gospel will feed us on the Word of God, but that is not enough. He feeds us but one or two days of the week, and we need to be fed every day.
—R. A. Torrey
Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
Augustine
Time and space are finite in extent, but they don’t have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.
—Stephen Hawking
It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy’s one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two.
—Sun Tzu
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
—Blaise Pascal
In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack–the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of manoeuvres.
—Sun Tzu
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little better for anything else.
—John Locke
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little better for anything else.
—John Locke
When we find out an Idea, by whose Intervention we discover the Connexion of two others, this is a Revelation from God to us, by the voice of Reason.
—John Locke