Famous quotes containing the words earth, attack and/or force:
“You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot!
You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!””
—William Brighty Rands (”Matthew Browne”)
“We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“‘Tis happy, therefore, that nature breaks the force of all sceptical arguments in time, and keeps them from having any considerable influence on the understanding. Were we to trust entirely to their self-destruction, that can never take place, ‘till they have first subverted all conviction, and have totally destroy’d human reason.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)