Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?
It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.
I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.
I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.
If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.
Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
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