Never laugh at live dragons.
We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think — in fact they do so.
So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.
Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.
Taste is good for wine lovers and cooks. Art has nothing to do with taste.
History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
It always seems impossible until its done.
They did not know it was impossible so they did it.
Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
I wish you all the joy that you can wish.
Pain is short, and joy is eternal.
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
We are nothing; what we seek is everything.
Now, true humor begins when a man ceases to take himself seriously.
All original thinking takes place in images, and this is why imagination is so necessary an instrument of thought, and minds that lack imagination will never accomplish much.
So far we have just spoken as simple physicists; now we must rise to metaphysics, by making use of the great principle, little used, commonly, that nothing takes place without sufficient reason, that is, that nothing happens without it being possible for someone who knows enough things to give a reason sufficient to determine why it is so and not otherwise.
Neither a borrower, nor a lender be;
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them.
Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion
The feeling of self-assurance derived from physical achievement always transfers itself to the mental sphere.
Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.
The heart is able to bury deep and well what is urgently desires to forget.
It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.
Language is a system of signs that express ideas.
One can run away from anything but oneself.
In jest - it is well known - one may even tell the truth.
I tell you: "Only you yourself can be your liberator!"
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