Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Age merely shows what children we remain.
The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell.
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
True friends stab you in the front.
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
All generalizations are false, including this one.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Common sense is not so common.
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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