The wise are wise only because they love.
This dark light which falls from the stars.
Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be ... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.
There is no substitute for the living.
So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.
Success always demands a greater effort.
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.
The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature.
Hope it is that nourishes love.
Fear: Gives one wings.
Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy.
O philosophy, life’s guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life.
Philosophy only is the true one which reproduces most faithfully the statements of nature, and is written down, as it were, from nature's dictation, so that it is nothing but a copy and a reflection of nature, and adds nothing of its own, but is merely a repetition and echo.
Many scientists did not like the idea that the universe had a beginning, a moment of creation.
Nature hides her secret because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
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.
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