I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
What is art? Nature concentrated.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
Who, being loved, is poor?
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
By indignities men come to dignities.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
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