Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
