Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
Wisdom begins at the end.
Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it
If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
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.
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
What can't be cured must be endured.
You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
