Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.
It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.
No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.
He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.
A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.
Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.
Morally as well as physically, there is only one world, and we all have to live in it
I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.
It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new normal.
The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.
Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.
My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life.
Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.
...the poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old.
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.
Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.
Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears,--the one of grief, the other of deceit.
Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false.
God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.
The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
Zionism wants to define the Jewish people as a national entity ... which is a heresy.
Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.
True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent
The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.