Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious.
The essential job is to get people to recognise war propaganda when they see it, especially when it is disguised as peace propaganda.
All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living and the dead of all nations have contributed.
Love or hate alters the face of justice.
Oh that so many pitchers of rough clay Should prosper and the porcelain break in two!
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools for making tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture.
Ah, who brings the happy moments, Glorious days of sweet first love; Who can bring back a single hour Of that blessed time again.
Nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these biases to draw too much, so as to incapacitate them for other occupations and entertainments.
I want to make one thing absolutely clear. I am not a Zen Buddhist, I am not advocating Zen Buddhism, I am not trying to convert anyone to it. I have nothing to sell. I'm an entertainer. That is to say, in the same sense, that when you go to a concert and you listen to someone play Mozart, he has nothing to sell except the sound of the music. He doesn’t want to convert you to anything. He doesn’t want you to join an organization in favor of Mozart's music as opposed to, say, Beethoven's. And I approach you in the same spirit as a musician with his piano or a violinist with his violin. I just want you to enjoy a point of view that I enjoy.
If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia? What will he do with the leisure that the machine will give him?
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
It is desire that creates the desirable, it is the project that poses the end.
Extreme justice is often an insult.
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
My library was dukedom large enough.
Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
Man is the being who wills.
Make a lot of walks to get healthy and don’t read that much but save yourself some until you’re grown up.
Only do not look for anything behind the phenomena; they themselves are the teaching.
In my prints I try to show that we live in a beautiful and orderly world and not in a chaos without norms, as we sometimes seem to.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
You can never soften the skin of a hedgehog.
It is through gainful employment that the woman has traversed most of the distance that separated her from the male; and nothing else can guarantee her liberty in practice.
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
The child sees everything in a state of newness; he is always drunk. Nothing more resembles what we call inspiration than the delight with which a child absorbs form and color.
Seek to be counselled, seek not to be praised.
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
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