Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always--this is duty.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Will localizes us, thought universalizes us.
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.
What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.
A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.
Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to another, and, companions in labour and misfortune, have everything to lose by mutual recrimination and reproach. Let us be silent as to each other's weakness, helpful, tolerant, many, tender towards each other! Or, if we cannot feel tenderness, may we at least feel pity!
Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being.
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.
It is work which gives flavor to life.
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart, in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within.
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