There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance only implies ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
“I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.”
Truth exists; only lies are invented
“Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
A month passes by and brings another month. Easy to guess what lies ahead: all of yesterday’s boredom. And tomorrow ends up no longer like tomorrow.
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
He who works only for himself is like cattle that care only for their bellies.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
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.
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.
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”
When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish play.
The solution to all the world's ills lies in the union of all faiths which will come about through religious unity
The soul's joy lies in doing.
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
My soul grows today and multiplies like an army marching on the battlefield.
"A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies."
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.