Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes! Galileo: No. Unhappy the land that needs heroes.
As soon as an individual takes an action, whatever that action may be, it begins to escape from his intentions.
I will praise any man that will praise me.
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.
There is humility in gratitude, and humility is difficult.
How happy many people would be if they cared about other people's affairs as little as about their own.
Death is the unknown in which all of us lived before birth.
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular.
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
I want to live through three or four more books.
I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.
Right from the beginning, to me the point of architecture, has actually been to show people that even if you are poor, you do not need to live in misery.
Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence.
If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer... And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.
That's what a genius is: an intelligence that knows its limits.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
One of the basic rules of the Universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
If all things were turned to smoke, the nostrils would distinguish them.
Even if I knew that the world would end tomorrow, I would still plant an apple tree today.
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
A man always describes himself unconsciously whenever he describes anyone else.
The task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.
Nothing is as valuable to a man as courage.
There is today perhaps no more firmly credited prejudice than this: that one knows what really constitutes the moral.
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