Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Repentance leads to refreshing times.

For that genuine smile on your face, find the lost confidence and then that's it!

They just want to control the population through fear and manipulation

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.

The most important thing is not victory, the most important thing is don't get defeated.

You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his gaze startles you.

a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.