The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

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.

Always set small, realistic goals that you know you can achieve first. But don't give up on the bigger ones that may seem too far from your reach.

The Root Cause of Our Problems is The Attachment To Possessions and #Desire for more.#KnowThyself

You have the privilege of presenting a picture of what heaven will be like to those around you.

No one in this world needs a mink coat but a mink.

So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.

Technical devices or processes which receive intensified investment during cold or hot wars spread through societies contagiously once their monopoly by the state has been undermined.

When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.

Artwork can be a portal, a kind of rethinking and reseeing of the world as we live it.