A star shines on the hour of our meeting.
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
Through Albert Einstein's work the horizon of mankind has been immeasurably widened, at the same time as our world picture has attained a unity and harmony never dreamed of before.
Nature has a great simplicity and, therefore, a great beauty.
If it is true that one is poor on account of all the things one wants, the ambitious and the avaricious languish in extreme poverty.
I picked this sprig of heather Autumn has died you must remember We shall not see each other ever I'm waiting and you must remember Time's perfume is a sprig of heather
It seems to me, when I see nature, that I see it ready made, completely written — but then, try to do it!
We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
For whatever we do or suffer for a friend is pleasant, because love is the principal cause of pleasure.
I say one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a seer by an immense, long, deliberate derangement of all the senses.
Knowing where you want to go is a good start; but you have to show you are on your way.
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
I am not what I once was.
Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul;
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
If we are too wise, we may be equally to blame.
Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.
An action is the perfection and publication of thought.
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Propaganda is to democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
The first thing for us to realize is that the universe is spherical. This is so either because, of all forms, the sphere is the most perfect, requiring no joins, and being an integrated whole; or because it is the most capacious of all forms, and so best fitted to enclose and preserve all things.
Necessity teaches tolerance.
Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man may present his views without penalty, there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Reason and freedom are incompatible with weakness.
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