Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.
You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
To mean something, once, Then death.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
However life treats you, as time goes by you always get the feeling you've lost life in the very living of it.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
It is not death that a man should fear. He should fear never beginning to live.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
If the youth can't make a living through creative work, they will do something else and the artistic world will be dealt a blow.
The greatest spiritual practice is to transform love into service.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called the People's Stick.
“Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance”
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Progress, this great heresy of decay.
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You'll be certain to find something you have never seen before.”
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined. Actually, every word has a great burden of memories, not only just of one person but of all mankind
And, in the end, death is just a symptom that there was life.
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating yourself endlessly.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.
What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible
Whenever there are great virtues, it is a sure sign that something is wrong.
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”
Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
Of course many people will have much to say. We should listen. But we won't be deceived by words such as Indispensable, Unique, and Great.
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.
There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.
I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people.
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.
Dum Spiro, spero: As long as I breathe, I hope.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them – in a word, to create a living art – this has been my aim.
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.”
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
There is no greater sorrow Than to recall a happy time When miserable.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
The world is a theater, life is a drama: You come, see and leave.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises
We have only one recourse in the face of death: make art before it happens.
And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That’s why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It’s a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don’t want to die
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
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“If a separate personal Paradise exists for each of us, mine must be irreparably planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of truth of death insist on singing in Greek and saying eros, eros, eros.”
You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.
Every human being is a repeated question asked to the spirit of the Universe.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going. It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
It is the dignity with which one goes to his death that is remembered by all, What of life, it comes and goes.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death. I think peace and tranquillity will return eventually.
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?”
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Separation by death must finally be choked down, but separation in life is a long anguish,
There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.
Love is creation's greatest joy.
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.
Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.”
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.”
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.
Treat your parents as you would like your children to behave to you.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.
The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.
Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.
Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.”
Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, is not to have one.
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.
Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. To act as if death did not exist, or to act thinking every minute of death, is perhaps the same thing.
You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since "the rest of your life" won’t last forever
A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke
“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
“Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality;
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
For I will not let fear swallow My breath, my dreams, and my hopes! My hidden courage will saw off your fist.
Of all the gracious things upon this earth, It is fair words that have the greatest worth,
Variety is life; uniformity is death
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
He, who can create, abhors destruction.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
Silence is a source of great strength.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
We’re all on a boat and a voyage we share, we plough the great sea together.
No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals; war on the rogues, the idlers and the rowdies!
Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
The aims of life are the best defense against death.
Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom.”
Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to toil hard and to suffer sore, till old age creeps heavily upon us and we throw down our hands on the cold ashes of dead fires. It is hard to live. In pain the babe sucks his first breath, in pain the old man gasps his last, and all his days are full of trouble and sorrow; yet he goes down to the open arms of death, stumbling, falling, with head turned backward, fighting to the last. And death is kind. It is only life and the things of life that hurt. Yet we love life and we hate death. It is very strange.
. A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
Dreams are great magicians.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
“Never was anything great achieved without danger.
Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
“I've been very near death. And you can't imagine the wild elation of those moments- it's the sudden glimpse of the absurdity of life that brings it- when one meets death face to face."
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb
The first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.”
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
I discovered to my joy, that it is life, not death, that has no limits.
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels.
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.
You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.
Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator.
Poetry is my breath; poems are my bread.
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.
It is necessary that the child teach himself, and then the success is great.
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Till ye have battled with great grief and fears/And borne the conflict of dream-shattering years/Wounded with fierce desire and worn with strife/Children, ye have not lived: for this is life.”
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.
The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.
There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
I have met many young men, who have the skeletons of the old covered by the garb of youth. On the other hand, I have met many elderly people who are weighed down by age but beneath the cloud there lies the glorious sun of youth.
By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Love is the axis and breath of my life.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (said in 1888).
“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.”
When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.0.99
Creatures of a day! What is a man? What is he not? A dream of a shadow Is our mortal being.
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
The greatest wealth is to be content with little.
The community which has neither poverty nor great riches will always have the noblest principles.
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is the most shameful and vile of all things.
While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them.”
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Eat on the grass Hurry up Sooner or later The grass will eat on you"
The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise.
Either be silent or say things of more value than silence. Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Life is defined by the Law of Force and Necessity (the more you beat necessity the stronger you get)
Do not eat your heart. meaning: Do not worry.
There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy
You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
“If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.”
We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust
Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Those who apply themselves too much to little things often become incapable of great ones.
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness?
What wisom can you find that is greater than kindness.
My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Eros, again now, the loosen of limbs troubles me, / Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature….
One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.
Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying.
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being merely the play of thought.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
The Beardmore Glacier is not difficult in fine weather, but on our return we did not get a single completely fine day; this with a sick companion enormously increased our anxieties.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.
If there are no conditions for an active art scene, it is our duty to create them.
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
Beneath it all, I kept faith with Ithaca,
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.
If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these arts. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts, every act is an art.
I love art.. when I'm alone with my notes, my heart beats fast and tears run from my eyes.
Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.
Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
Death is no tragic. In 100 years, none of us will be concerned.
I'm a coward. I succumbed to jealousy and now it eats my heart.
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.
Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.