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I have said that people are rendered sociable by their inability to endure solitude, that is to say, their own society. They become sick of themselves. Their mind is wanting in flexibility; it has no movement of its own, so they try to give it some — by drink, for instance… They are always looking for some form of excitement, of the strongest kind they can bear — the excitement of being with people of like nature with themselves; and if they fail in this, their mind sinks by its own weight, and they fall into grievous lethargy.
Man is never deceived; he deceives himself.
Whoever we are, we find ourselves, through self-observation, possessed of a certain small number of typical ways of reacting to the manifold impressions of incoming life. These mechanical reactions govern us.
The mountain veiled in mist is not a hill; an oak tree in the rain is not a weeping willow.
No matter where you place it, gold is gold.
Never speak out of anger,
Never act out of fear,
Never choose from impatience,
But wait… and peace will appear.
The highest enjoyment is that of being contented with ourselves. It is in order to deserve this contentment that we are placed here on earth and endowed with liberty.
Man is the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself.
Self-interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of roles, even that of disinterestedness.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you.
Devote six years to your work, but in the seventh go into solitude or among strangers so that your friends, by remembering what you were, do not prevent you from being what you have become.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.
The soul that rises with us, our life’s star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting.
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home.
I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
An individual drop can be merged with the ocean, and still remain meaningful. He has found his “place.”
Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we set for ourselves is given us… Man is made great or small by his own will.
Love of justice in most men is only the fear of suffering from injustice.
Truth makes all things plain.
