Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?
Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.
It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.
The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.
One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it.
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.
To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some permissable manner made away with, and swept out of sight, is not an amiable faith.
Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!
I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
The archenemy is the arch stupid!
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.
It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
Lies exist only to be extinguished.
Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.
The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: