All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first
I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.
I think, therefore I am.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.