Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance only implies ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
Above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.
No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.
“I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.”
Truth exists; only lies are invented
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
“Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...
Men willingly believe what they wish.
In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it”
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
A month passes by and brings another month. Easy to guess what lies ahead: all of yesterday’s boredom. And tomorrow ends up no longer like tomorrow.
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation.
Man is what he believes.
I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.
We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means.
Your eyes in which I travel, Have given to signs along the roads A meaning alien to the earth.
If evil is spoken of you and it is true, correct yourself, if it is a lie, laugh at it.
Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.)
“The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.”
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.”
“I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
A man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds,
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.
We easily believe what we likeT
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
He who works only for himself is like cattle that care only for their bellies.
The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else.
Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.
You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
Money is the alienated essence of man's labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
It is sweet to believe that one has been a companion in a mission that never ends.
Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
I have met many young men, who have the skeletons of the old covered by the garb of youth. On the other hand, I have met many elderly people who are weighed down by age but beneath the cloud there lies the glorious sun of youth.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.
I now believe that all journeys are ridiculous: the only journey from which you don't always come back empty-handed is the journey inside yourself.
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
I still can't believe that some pseudocritics continue to accuse me of having murdered tango
Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own
If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”
When you think something is beautiful and useful it has to be defended, I believe that the crisis in the teaching of Greek hides a much deeper problem, the crisis of literary teaching in general.
I do not think you learn wisdom just like that, by reading Thucydides and becoming reasonable, but I do believe that if young people came into contact with that period of reflection which is different from our time, but which nevertheless has elements in common, we would think better, in a more measured, more reasonable and more tolerant fashion.
I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.”
When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish play.
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.
The solution to all the world's ills lies in the union of all faiths which will come about through religious unity
People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
The soul's joy lies in doing.
Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
My soul grows today and multiplies like an army marching on the battlefield.
"A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies."
When Theocritus was asked why he did not write more, he replied: "Because I prefer to write little and well rather than much and poorly."
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Nothing is simpler than to complete pictures in a superficial sense. Never does one lie so cleverly as then.
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
The peasant celebrates with song and dance the harvest safely gathered in. The cup of Bacchus flows freely, and many find their relief in deep slumber
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Luck is believing you're lucky.
a reformer of Lieder songs.