The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

De omnibus dubitandum

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.

How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

A smile you gift is a smile you earn… Gift a smile to your parents, friends, or even a stranger.

If you want to attain some heights in your life, you have to walk every minute.

Banishing those evil twins:-Talk about values-Don’t assume people understand your motives-Don’t be above explaining yourself-Dare to invite feedback-Understand the impact of good intention

The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.

Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.

Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?