Only through suffering can we find ourselves.
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
Above all, don't lie to yourself.
The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.
He who masters the grey everyday is a hero.
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.
To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.
The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.
If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.
Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.
You can be sincere and still be stupid.
I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.
Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.
Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.
The soul is healed by being with children.
Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.
Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .
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