It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Well done is better than well said.
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
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