So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.
It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
What is crucial is there be laws.
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.