love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval
The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.
The muffled syllables that Nature speaksFill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,She makes a sweeter music than is heard.
Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
The earth has its music for those who will listen.
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.
The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions, their reasons are always different.
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
To knock a thing down especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight to the blood.
Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.
If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
There is nothing to which men while they have food and drink cannot reconcile themselves.
Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man’s charter of nobility.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours.
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
To cement a new friendship especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person and cut across the accidents of place and time.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium of custom of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.
There is nothing sacred about convention there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism.
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
Happiness is the only sanction in life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man’s wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility.
Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
By nature’s kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond man’s power to answer do not occur to him at all.
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
Progress far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it.
Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Each religion by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
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.
Work and love – these are the basics waking life is a dream controlled.
If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
Science is nothing but developed perception interpreted intent common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
A man’s memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past according to his interest in the present.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The truth is cruel but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one no less wise to balance it.
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
The degree in which a poet’s imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.