Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
History is written by the victors.
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Being is the great explainer.
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
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