It's not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles.
For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?
Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.
People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.
A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.
We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.
To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.
Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window
Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.
There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.
The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent.
The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.
In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.
To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought, by long work over a long time, for one ought to love not for a chance moment but for all time. Anyone, even a wicked man, can love by chance.
To cook your hare you must first catch it.
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