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.
We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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?
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.
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.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question.
I am still sensitive to beauty. I would say, almost more so! The objects are somewhat distorted, blurry like impressionist paintings that strike you, sometimes, and draw you in. But external beauty remains transitory, whereas the beauty of a text, of a sentence, is an idea that I will keep within me an entire day.
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
From now on, our duty as Negro-Africans is plain. We remain free to travel with the current, or to row against it.
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.