Nature hates calculators.
I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.
It is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say. As nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing, so nothing is more rare in any man than an act of his own...feel yourself, and be not daunted by things...The light by which we see this world comes out from the soul of the observer.
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.
Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior...
An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.
You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you. Far otherwise; your silence utters very loud: you have no oracle to speak, no wisdom to offer, and your fellow men have learned that you cannot help them. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice? We would be well to do likewise.
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.
Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.
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