There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. One has to go abroad in order to find the home one has lost.
The finest things in life are life’s illusions.
The only mystery is there being someone who thinks about mystery.
There is something in every person's character that cannot be broken — the bony structure of his character.
To accept reason is impossible if you don’t already possess it.
Becoming human is an art.
You, as a human being, you grow out of this physical universe in just exactly the same way that an apple grows off an apple tree.
We are dwarfs perched on the shoulders of giants. If we see more and farther than our predecessors, it is not because we have keener vision or greater height, but because we are lifted up and borne aloft on their gigantic stature.
That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and — what will perhaps make you wonder more — it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
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.
What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee.
Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.
One must be on one's guard against the bad man, lest he seize his opportunity.
To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.
There is humility in gratitude, and humility is difficult.
Death is the unknown in which all of us lived before birth.
The superior man does not put aside good words because of the man.
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.
The people who never have time are the ones who get the least done.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex.
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.
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