The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
The only way to avoid error is ignorance.
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grow older.
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me.
Utopias are often just premature truths.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
Experience teaches.
The essence of my optimism is constructive pessimism.
To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
To choose life, is to always choose the future.
The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
It is clear that ethics cannot be stated. Ethics is transcendental.
The time present of things past is memory; the time present of things present is direct experience; the time present of things future is expectation.
How wise must one be to be always kind.
Doubt is the father of invention.
The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored.
Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.
Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Art consists in making others feel what we feel.
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.
A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent.
Opposites are complementary.
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
So when any one makes you angry, know that it is your own thought that has angered you.
There is nothing more important than that we should not, like sheep, follow the flock that has preceded us.
We have as much need of reasons for living as of the necessities of life.
It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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