I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Men are the dreams of a shadow.
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Nature has always had more force than education.
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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