He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
Paradise on earth is where I am.
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses what one would be capable of doing before the world at large.
I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes.
In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning.
One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.
Virtue is the same both for men and for women.
When you are studying any matter, or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only: What are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
The imagination is nothing other than the subject transported into things.
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
On some preference esteem is based; To esteem everything is to esteem nothing.
This is the real secret of life: to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now, and instead of calling it 'work', realize that this is play.
We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.
Truth endures forever.
'Tis early practice only makes the master
Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life. Only the existence of these varied, frequently conflicting, strivings accounts for the special character of a man, and their specific combination determines the extent to which an individual can achieve an inner equilibrium and can contribute to the well-being of society.
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
When a man may be spoken with, not to speak to him is to err in reference to the man.
The world is not so bad after all, if you know how to take things as they come.
The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be.'
He knows the universe, and himself he does not know.
Order does not create life.
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that the wave is something that the whole ocean is doing.
A constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than a form of drudgery, for no activity can be continued for long if it does not to some extent afford pleasure to the participant.
Real education is about getting people involved in thinking for themselves.
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.
The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
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