Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

I think, therefore I am.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

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 pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.