The real magic wand is the child's own mind.
The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
We cannot put off living until we are ready.
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
I am I plus my circumstances.
Life is fired at us point blank.
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man
Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.
We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'
For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being, and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.
Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.
Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of the personal efforts of highly endowed individuals which the creation of this new world presupposed. Still less will he admit the notion that all these facilities still require the support of certain difficult human virtues, the least failure of which would cause the rapid disappearance of the whole magnificent edifice.
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.
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