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.
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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.
All that is natural is varied.
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.
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.
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing — between two fictions.
We are all travellers. And this journey is life.
In all things, equality is fair, excess and deficiency not so, in my opinion.
Art is a way of viewing things independently from the principle of sufficient reason.
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Repetition is the mother of learning.
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.
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