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.
Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
High thoughts must have high language.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
There comes an age, when you want a nature instead of the city and crowds. Parisian statues are awesome, but its nature is not so fascinating
There is only one language, the language of the Heart. There is only one religion, the religion of Love.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
“To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows, We drained a hundred jugs of wine.
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
All happiness depends on courage and work.
“They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues…”
I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you." "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the way they fumble around with their consciences." "And atheists?" He was still laughing. "They bore me because all they ever talk about is God.
To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others. ”
“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”
With age, art and life become one.
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'
“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
He knows he’s aged a lot: he sees it, feels it. Yet it seems he was young just yesterday. So brief an interval, so very brief.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.”
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
“Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty .”
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Simply it’s a universal language that everyone can understand and communicate easily. Music bridges cultures and countries from different parts of the globe
Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
Good music is very close to primitive language.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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Language is much closer to film than painting is.
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
God did not, as the Bible says, make man in His image; on the contrary man, as I have shown in The Essence of Christianity, made God in his image.”
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.
Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.
What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right — two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
“Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.”
A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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.
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. Walking is the best medicine.
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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.
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.
A forest bird never wants a cage.
In sloth and strenuous amusements the pleasures are followed by sorrows, but the diligence of virtue and the prudent management of life always offer pure and safer pleasures.
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Every night I make love to 25,000 people on stage, but then I go home alone.
The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.
My painting carries with it the message of pain.
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
Always the perfect, unworthy lover of the endless voyage and azure ocean
Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.”
As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others.
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.
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
I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
For I will not let fear swallow My breath, my dreams, and my hopes! My hidden courage will saw off your fist.
There is no average between Old and New. The world is either old or new.
With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.
The working people cannot purchase with their wages the wealth which they have produced.
The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
We’re all on a boat and a voyage we share, we plough the great sea together.
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.
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
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.
Ignorance is a dreadful thing and has caused no end of damage to the human race.
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
“it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
There is no marriage in Heaven, but there is love.
In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.
Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.
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.
Language is the only homeland.
Culture is the heritage of the people, indestructible and forever.
“Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.”
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
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.
“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
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.
Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.
Freedom is the sure possession of those who have the courage to defend it.
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, the tragedy is when a man is afraid of the light.
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
And die of nothing but from rage to live.
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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
Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.
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
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
“The example could encourage others who only fear to start.
Ancient Greece offers us a language which I will say is ecumenical. Everyone should learn Greek, because the Greek language helps us first and foremost to understand our own language.
The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.
“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.
“What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.”
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.
“Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.”
All the world ‘s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them.
I dreamed that shoulder to shoulder with my companions I was returning to the village after a full day of work, in the evening light, happy, in such a dream.
Ιt takes courage to raise children.
I love songs that talk about beauty, courage and humanity.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
I have reached a very mature age without resting upon anything positive, without having calmed my restless spirit either by religion or philosophy. Undoubtedly I should have gone mad but for music.
Take courage, my friend; tomorrow may be a better day for you.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
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.
can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
"Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one..."