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.
If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Love is selflessness, Self is lovelessness.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating yourself endlessly.
Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
The whole soul is in the whole body, in the bones and in the veins and in the heart; it is no more present in one part than in another, and it is no less present in one part than in the whole, nor in the whole less than in one part.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
That which costs little is less valued.
In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
We have two ears and one tongue so that we should listen more and talk less.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
To know God and not oneself to be God, to know blessedness and not oneself to enjoy it, is a state of disunity or unhappiness.”
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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.
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
“Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.”
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed is the famous flaw that saves us from the abominable perfection
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
Always the perfect, unworthy lover of the endless voyage and azure ocean
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry
These awesome times, these restless times, are playing nervously with what we are looking for, in every direction, crushing and killing dreams.
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.
He who shouts in his anger is harmless. Fear the one who is silently angry.
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.
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
He who a single one loves is blessed – beloved of everybody. Whoever self-interest forgets the best will blessèd dreams embody.
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
Bless us, oh Lord, with good fortune For ever and evermore.
Bless us with freedom, bless us with wisdom, Guide into kind world,
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.
Governments oppress mankind in two ways, either directly, by brute force, that is physical violence, or indirectly, by depriving them of the means of subsistence and thus reducing them to helplessness at discretion.
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.
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.
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire. It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
With your faults, dont hurry. Dont correct them thoughtlessly. What would you put in their place?
He who hides his madman, dies voiceless.
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
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.
Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war.
Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.
Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.
You are not alive unless you know you are living.
“The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself.
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
The less men think, the more they talk.
Our riches, being in our brains, die with us... Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won't need them anyway.
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
Was it really my destiny, was it my fortune, I haven't met another A sea within me as shallow as a lake, And like an ocean boundless and big.
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
The worth of music, it includes all things Of untold value, like a priceless gem
The culture of social and mass media is very restless and hectic and frenzied. This is going to make the human psyche, especially among young people here, very volatile
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower beings will never know health or peace. He, who sows the fruit of murder and pain can not reap joy and love.
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.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
he happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
I do not think you learn wisdom just like that, by reading Thucydides and becoming reasonable, but I do believe that if young people came into contact with that period of reflection which is different from our time, but which nevertheless has elements in common, we would think better, in a more measured, more reasonable and more tolerant fashion.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.
I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.
No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.
Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
The best city is where those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome.
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain 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.
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.
Soon became convinced I was right and undertook the task with all the fire and boundless confidence of youth.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.
Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.