“Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.”
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.
You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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?
People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Look back over the past, with it's changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
It is clear that the world is purely parodic, in other words, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise.
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You'll be certain to find something you have never seen before.”
When one door closes, another door opens; but we so often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
The Eyes See Only What The Mind Is Prepared To Comprehend.
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seemed filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster
What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Oh would some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us.
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.'
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.
Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children.
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it”
Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.
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.
Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.
To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them – in a word, to create a living art – this has been my aim.
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.”
I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
The world is a theater, life is a drama: You come, see and leave.
Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
“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.”
“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.”
Intelligence is the ability of seeing and reproducing in an objective manner everything that exists and happens.
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
Those who consider weak the people mastered by their passions are like that crazy doctor who named a man to be fool just because he had seen him suffering of fever.
“The peoples of civilization see their wretchedness increase in direct proportion to the advance of industry.”
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.
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?
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
“We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
The first and fundamental law of Nature is to seek peace and follow it.
I swear to the Lord,I still can't see,Why Democracy means,Everybody but me
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.
About these ruins that I see?! Do the words that I write Hurt your tender heart?
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.”
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated
When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
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.
The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.
To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road-- Only wakes upon the sea.
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
It always seems impossible until it's done.
There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.
I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.
I always knew I was a star, and now the rest of the world seems to agree with me
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.
One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.
What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world.
What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.
I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but base flattery, injustice , self-interest, deceit and roguery. I cannot bear it any longer; I'm furious; and my intention is to break with all mankind.”
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
At some given moment it happens that the child becomes deeply interested in a piece of work; we see it in the expression on his face, his intense concentration, the devotion to the exercise.
As we observe children, we see the vitality of their spirit, the maximum effort put forth in all they do, the intuition, attention and focus they bring to all life’s events, and the sheer joy they experience in living.
I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
While the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.”
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Love goes on a journey, like I do One day I'll find it By the time I see its face I'll recognize it right away.
What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.
When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.”
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
He who has seem everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.
“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
All my life, you've told me that the world is a dark, cruel place. But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!”
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.
“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 your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
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.
I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country... You, who will see it, welcome it for me...don't forget those who fell during the nighttime.”
By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.
It is not peace that I seek, but life.
Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.
There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.
I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.”
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
“When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"
Black child, I see your wings sprouting.
What you seek is seeking you.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.
I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Who seeks shall find.
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.
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves..
These people annoy me. They want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly. Look, it is so easy to finish things.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
All the wonders you seek are within yourself. We should seek to discover our own special light. Know how to live within yourself;
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
In memory, everything seems to happen to music.
I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event.
Men unite against none so readily as against those whom they see attempting to rule over them.
Men are drawn closer to virtue when they see the dishonor that falls on misleaders.
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.