To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
The man who does ill must suffer ill.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
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.
It is natural to love oneself, and only the egoism must be condemned. That is not only to love yourself, but to love him more than is needed.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
“It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
Everything must come from the heart, must be lived.
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
We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.
Passionate subjects must be dealt with in cold blood
We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.”
“Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
If you play with cats, you must expect to be scratched.
In order to attain the impossible, you must attempt the absurd.
In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.”
We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means.
“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.”
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
“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.”
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
“The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.”
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
What is to give light must endure burning
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
“If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed.
Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.
Separation by death must finally be choked down, but separation in life is a long anguish,
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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.
“It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.
However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.”
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.”
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds,
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.
Grief must be shared to be endured.
“I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.
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.
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.
The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.”
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
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 task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.
A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
I must keep my heart inviolate Against the potent poison of your hate.
The show must go on.
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.
It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the people. He must beautify life and defend it. He must be a citizen first and foremost, so that his art might consciously extol human life and lead man to a radiant future.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
“I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable…. But I don’t seem to have a single real friend!”
“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.”
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.”
Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it.
Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.
If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.
The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.
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.
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.
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.
“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.”
I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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.
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.
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.
One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.