Forces Opened Fire

Famous quotes containing the words forces, opened and/or fire:

    “We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful than any other.”
    —Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

    “I have just opened Bacon’s “Advancement of Learning” for the first time, which I read with great delight. It is more like what Scott’s novels were than anything.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,—life passed through the fire of thought.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)