Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
They do not love that do not show their love.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
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