Dagobert D. Runes Quotes

If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?

Fate is what Heaven imparts.

Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.

Science began with a gadget and a trick. The gadget was the wheel; the trick was fire. We have come a long way from the two-wheel cart to the round-the-world transport plane, or from the sparking flint to man-made nuclear fission. Yet I wonder whether the inhabitants of Hiroshima were more aware of the evolution of science than ancient man facing an on-storming battle chariot.
It isn't physics that will make this a better life, nor chemistry, nor sociology. Physics may be used to atom-bomb a nation and chemistry may be used to poison a city and sociology has been used to drive people and classes against classes. Science is only an instrument, no more than a stick or fire or water that can be used to lean on or light or refresh, and also can be used to flail or burn or drown. Knowledge without morals is a beast on the loose.

Pain is always a fanged serpent, but to the fearful it has a hundred heads.

Faith is nothing but knowledge that what we understand is only a shadow of the Unknown. Faith is the science of the pitiful limitations of man's mental scope.

True honor does not crave recognition, as true wisdom craves not publicity. The great heroes and the great men of wisdom walk silently through the bypaths of mankind.

Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar.

Whatever betterment we have today was carved out of a world of stone by men of the hammer, not men of hope.

The best grammarian still can't write a verse.

Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

The Hebrews have no name for Him, the Moslems have a hundred. Both suggest the same thing, that there are concepts as well as emotions that can be communicated only allegorically.

You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.

Cover the earth, before it covers you.

Everything Hitler did to the Jews, all the horribly unspeakable misdeeds, had already been done to the smitten people before by the Christian churches ... The isolation of Jews into ghetto camps, the wearing of the yellow spot, the burning of Jewish books, and finally the burning of the people - Hitler learned it all from the church. However, the church burned Jewish women and children alive, while Hitler granted them a quicker death, choking them first with gas.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

Life is rather a short walk through eternity. Be they seeds, pups or infants, on the trek all pick up weight, sensitivity and awareness. Then, much before the end of the run, they deteriorate, head, legs and lungs. The tragicomedy of existence: the long walk of slow decay.

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.