It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
What's done can't be undone.
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
Time wounds all heels.
An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Resist much. Obey little.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
The object of the superior man is truth.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.