What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Beware the hobby that eats.
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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