What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.
The harmony is generally the result of contraries; for it is the unity of multiplicity, and the agreement of discordances.
Life is a festival only to the wise.
When it is not possible to see what ought to be done, suspend your judgement and use the best men to advise you.
Happiness is a good flow of life.
I cannot live, experience, think, value, and act in any world which is not in some sense in me, and derives its meaning and truth from me.
Keep looking straight forward to the goal to which Nature is leading you, Universal Nature through what befalls you, and your own nature by what has to be done by yourself.
The end crowns the work.
The subject is of secondary importance to me; I want to represent what lives between the object and me.
If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
There are people that can believe everything they want. These are happy creatures.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
The same pride which makes us blame faults from which we believe ourselves free causes us to despise the good qualities we have not.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so.
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
Put the world’s greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be: if there is a precipice below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail. Many could not even stand the thought of it without going pale and breaking into a sweat.
Art is a means of stirring the greatest number of people by offering them a privileged picture of common joys and sufferings. It obliges the artist not to keep himself apart; it subjects him to the most humble and the most universal truth.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.
We speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness — the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.
Duality is always secretly unity.
Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.
Theres many a man has more hair than wit.
For the confirmation of my identity I depend entirely upon other people.
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
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