The Law of the Jungle, which never orders anything without a reason...
When you are philosophising you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.
Don't waste life in doubts and fears.
The habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture.
By trying to understand everything in terms of memory, the past, and words, we have, as it were, had our noses in the guidebook for most of our lives, and have never looked at the view.
Time itself flows on in constant motion, just like a river. For neither the river nor the swift hour can stop its course; but, as wave is pushed on by wave, and as each wave is both impelled by that behind and itself impels the wave in front, so time both flees and follows and is ever new. For that which once existed is no more, and that which was not has come to be; and so the whole round of motion is gone through again.
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
Not to extinguish our free-will, I hold it to be true that fortune is the arbiter of one half of our actions, but that she still leaves us to direct the other half, or perhaps a little less.
Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.
To light a fire with fire.
We are all bewitched by words. We confuse them with the real world, and try to live in the real world as if it were the world of words.
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
Existence is a function of relationship.
Logic is the most useful tool of all the arts. Without it no science can be fully known.
The art of the writer consists above all in making us forget that he uses words.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
It is a pity that one cannot see the learned entrails of authors so as to discover what they have eaten.
The shortest way to fame is to become good.
I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed ... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
As an artist, you should not wish to create what you don’t feel you have to create.
For the use of words, and thus of a book, is to point beyond themselves to a world of life and experience that is not mere words or even ideas. Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life.
All that is natural is varied.
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.
Lest too light winning Make the prize light.
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