Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

Never ignore the elephant in the room. That’s rude

Knowledge cannot defile nor consequently the books if the will and conscience be not defiled.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide.

Learn from the purity of nature.

I love to be alone with life. I love to study simple things: the light as it filters in a window; the music of a room full of people chatting; a horizon.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

If you want to give an advice to someone, you must first be somebody.

Make love your weapon to overcome any evil

Even small acts of kindness can make a profound difference to somebody else.