Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Colour is the soul of Nature and of the entire cosmos.
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.
It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.
Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch
It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one
Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.
Everyone looks the same to me in a photograph: stupid.
Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.
Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.
The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information
The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
A collection of books is the best of all universities.
Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.
...but what has been said once can always be repeated.
China is a much richer country than any part of Europe.
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.
Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not.
What I have sought is to understand what has been said.
The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.