In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
A man is literally what he thinks.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
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.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.