Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Rekindled love is generally short-term.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.