There is no hope unmingled with fear and no fear unmingled with hope.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.

White? That's good. virginal. He'll be reminded this is a first for you and hopefully won't just impale you on his pork sword.

History teaches usthat men and nationsonly behave wiselyonce they have exhaustedall other alternatives."--

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

My father was a manual worker.

In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming.

Better to mock the game than to play and lose.

I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.