Everything Quotes

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

Habit is stronger than reason.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.