Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
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