Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea.
To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.
We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living
At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.
Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.
In speaking, it is best to be clear and say just enough to convey the meaning.
There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.
God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.
Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
It is hard to fight against anger: to master it is the mark of a rational man.
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.
If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.
It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses.
Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes.
Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.
Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.
The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri
The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.
Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything
The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.
Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.
Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.
It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching.