Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time - but most of the time they will make fools of themselves.
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
...The eternal vital power builds them in the likeness of older worlds, placing them on the Imperishable Centres. How does he build them? He collects the fiery dust. He makes balls of fire, runs through them, and round them, infusing life there into, then sets them into motion; some one way, some the other way. They are cold, he makes them hot. They are dry, he makes them moist. They shine, he fans and cools them. Thus he acts from one twilight to the other, during Seven Eternities.
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
Discovery consists in seeing whateveryone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way, they remember you.
Success is relevant to coping with obstacles... But no problem is ever solved by those, who, when they fail, look for someone to blame instead of something to do.
Today the man who is the real risk-taker is anonymous and nonheroic. He is the one trying to make institutions work.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.... Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
To speak of "limits to growth" under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be "persuaded" to limit growth than a human being can be "persuaded" to stop breathing. Attempts to "green" capitalism, to make it "ecological", are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.
It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
Enriched beyond the dreams of any normal person?s avarice, she accumulated possessions with a single-minded lust that calls to mind those ancient Romans who gorged themselves, then vomited so they could gorge again.
The configuration of my nervous system, like the configuration of the stars, happens of itself, and this 'itself' is the real 'myself.' From this standpoint here language reveals its limitations with a vengeance I find that I cannot help doing and experiencing, quite freely, what is always 'right,' in the sense that the stars are always in their 'right' places.
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
...advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.