Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window
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.
People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.
Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.
At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men's sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once for all, you may subdue the whole world.
Then Christ will say to us, 'Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!' And he will say to us, 'Vile creatures, you in the image of the beast and you who bear his mark. All the same, you come too!' And the wise and prudent will say, 'Lord, why are you welcoming them? And he will say, 'O wise and prudent, I am welcoming them because not one of them has ever judged himself worthy. And he will stretch out his arms to us, and we shall fall at his feet, and burst into sobs, and then we shall understand everything, everything! Lord, your kingdom come!
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.
... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.
For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?
It's not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles.
Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.
To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.
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.
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.
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.
In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
To cook your hare you must first catch it.
I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.
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