Truth endures forever.
'Tis early practice only makes the master
Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life. Only the existence of these varied, frequently conflicting, strivings accounts for the special character of a man, and their specific combination determines the extent to which an individual can achieve an inner equilibrium and can contribute to the well-being of society.
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
When a man may be spoken with, not to speak to him is to err in reference to the man.
The world is not so bad after all, if you know how to take things as they come.
The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be.'
He knows the universe, and himself he does not know.
Order does not create life.
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that the wave is something that the whole ocean is doing.
A constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than a form of drudgery, for no activity can be continued for long if it does not to some extent afford pleasure to the participant.
Real education is about getting people involved in thinking for themselves.
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.
The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
I do not withdraw the wise man from the category of man, nor do I deny to him the sense of pain as though he were a rock that has no feelings at all.
If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.
The supreme task of the physicist is the discovery of the most general elementary laws from which the world-picture can be deduced logically. But there is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance, and this Einfühlung [literally, empathy or 'feeling one's way in'] is developed by experience.
Until kings are philosophers or philosophers are kings, cities will never cease from ill.
One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. In the case of the sailor, this is called a tide; in the case of the guilty, it is called remorse.
No path of flowers leads to glory.
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activities—perhaps the only one — in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. This is why we can say that, in science, we often learn from our mistakes, and why we can speak clearly and sensibly about making progress there.
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
One truth cannot conflict with another.
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.
There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves.
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
The least movement affects all nature; the entire sea changes because of a rock.
It is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.
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