Theories Are Like A Stairway; By Climbing, Science Widens Its Horizon More And More, Because Theories Embody And Necessarily Include Proportionately More Facts As They Advance.
Utopias Have Their Value -- Nothing So Wonderfully Expands The Imaginative Horizons Of Human Potentialities -- But As Guides To Conduct They Can Prove Literally Fatal.
Ours Is The Century Of Enforced Travel Of Disappearances. The Century Of People Helplessly Seeing Others, Who Were Close To Them, Disappear Over The Horizon.
When I Was Engaged In The Struggle For My Country, I Was Very Young. My Horizons Were Open.
What Causes [fragmentation] If Not A Need To Act That Specializes Us And Limits Us To The Horizon Of A Particular Activity? Even If It Turns Out To Be For The General Interest (which Generally Isn't True), The Activity That Subordinates Each Of Our Aspects To A Specific Result Suppresses Our Being As An Entirety. Whoever Acts Substitutes A Particular End For What He Or She Is, As A Total Being.
I Had Never Liked, Even Feared A Little, This Wild Reach Of Marsh And Mud Flats Where Everything Seemed Turned Away From The Land, Looking Off Desperately Toward The Horizon As If In Mute Search For A Sign Of Rescue.
Despite The Mythic Heights To Which He Was Raised, Azikiwe Was Nothing If Not Pragmatic, A Realist Always Conscious Of His Limits And Ever Eager To Extract All That Was Possible From That Limited Horizon.
Religions, Creeds And Forms Are Only A Characteristic Outward Sign Of The Spiritual Impulsion And Religion Itself Is The Intensive Action By Which It Tries To Find Its Inward Force. Its Expansive Movement Comes In The Thought Which It Throws Out On Life, The Ideals Which Open Up New Horizons And Which The Intellect Accepts And Life Labours To Assimilate.
Let Us Honor If We Can The Vertical Man, Though We Value None But The Horizontal One
