Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.
Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy, you must be reasonable, or you must be tamed. You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world and what things in it can really serve you. To be happy, you must be wise.
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.
There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity. Such a headless people has the mind of a worm and the claws of a dragon.
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
Depression is rage spread thin.
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
Memory itself is an internal rumour.
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.
Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
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