Giants Won

Famous quotes containing the words giants and/or won:

    “We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.... The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.”
    —Omar Bradley (1893–1981)

    “If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.”
    —Novalis [Friedrich Von Hardenberg] (1772–1801)