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.
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.
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