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 have to live and deal with disorder.
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.
When inferior men censure, the good man pays no heed.
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
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.
If, because a man's discourse appears solid and sincere, we allow him to be a good man, is he really a superior man? or is his gravity only in appearance?
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.
One must listen if one wishes to be listened to.
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.
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