It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Interpretation
Challenges diminish when confronted with courage and confidence.
This quote emphasizes the importance of approaching life's difficulties with boldness and confidence. Isaac Asimov suggests that rather than allowing fears or challenges to overwhelm us, we should face them directly. By doing so, we can often find that the difficulties we encounter become less daunting and may even dissipate altogether.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.
Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.
I'm bothered when people don't understand that they have an obligation to use their best measure of devotion, of resources, to sacrifice for the common good.
Naturalism says that we were not put here for any purpose. But that doesn't mean there isn't such thing as purpose. It just means that purpose isn't imposed from outside. We human beings have the creative ability to give our lives purposes and meanings.
Only the dead stay seventeen forever.
The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God's infinity, unity and oneness appear to be broken into an effulfgence of manifold rays.
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