It is in anguish that man becomes conscious of his freedom.
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word 'water' is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.
The harmony that holds between truths is like the harmony in a painting.
We bear each one our own destiny.
Humanity prefers to life reasons to live.
We are speaking on this occasion, not as members of this or that nation, continent, or creed, but as human beings, members of the species Man, whose continued existence is in doubt.
We cannot say why. The reason for love is love. The reason for love is that we love.
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
There is nothing softer and weaker than water, And yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.
To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as north pole is from the south.
The eye, which is called the window of the soul, is the principal means by which the central sense can most completely and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of nature; and the ear is the second, which acquires dignity by hearing of the things the eye has seen.
While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
If anyone can be considered the greatest writer who ever lived, it is Shakespeare.
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
A just king must be the first to observe those laws that he has himself prescribed.
The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.
It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say. I have sometimes heard painters say that they paint 'for themselves': but I think they would soon have painted their fill if they lived on a desert island.
One can demand of me that I seek truth, but not that I must find it.
It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.
What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics.
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its impulses for nonviolence, justice and equality.He exposes the fallacy of the claim that everyone can be rich and successful provided they work hard. He points to the millions who work themselves to the bone and still remain hungry.
Wit and valor are qualities that are more easily ascertained than virtue, or the love of wisdom.
When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?
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