However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.
Quotes about clamor (16 Quotes)
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the thought.
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.
It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.
Newspaper correspondents with an army, as a rule, are mischievous. They are the world's gossips, pick up and retail the camp scandal, and gradually drift to the headquarters of some general, who finds it easier to make reputation at home than with his own corps or division. They are also tempted to prophesy events and state facts which, to an enemy, reveal a purpose in time to guard against it. Moreover, they are always bound to see facts colored by the partisan or political character of their own patrons, and thus bring army officers into the political controversies of the day, which are always mischievous and wrong. Yet, so greedy are the people at large for war news, that it is doubtful whether any army commander can exclude all reporters, without bringing down on himself a clamor that may imperil his own safety. Time and moderation must bring a just solution to this modern difficulty.
The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.
Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence.
In a free country there is much clamor with little suffering in a despotic state there is little complaint But much suffering.
About the Time of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the Prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition.
The short-term bullish thesis on Sharper Image is dead. Long-term holders now have reason to be concerned. Short covering may prop up the stock today, but the fundamentals clamor for far more downside in the days and weeks ahead.
People crowd into film shows, rush towards social clubs - spend days together in playing cards - but when they are asked to sing the Glory of God and purify themselves and the atmosphere, they clamor for concession When the heads hit against each other in anger, can the feet be steady and unaffected They too will kick and trample as maliciously as they can.