If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs aswell.
Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.
Today I wasn't a king because I didn't do a good deed.
You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Evil events from evil causes spring.
They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.
Do not assume something is impossible because you find it hard but recognize that if it is humanly possible, you can do it too.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
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.
... because between the centuries, I gained a drop of life.
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you." "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the way they fumble around with their consciences." "And atheists?" He was still laughing. "They bore me because all they ever talk about is God.
The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.
“You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.”
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
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.
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
In combating racism we do not make progress if we combat the people themselves. We have to combat the causes of racism.
Do not confuse the reality you live in with the ideas you have in your head.
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
Where should one use perfume?” a young woman asked. “Wherever one wants to be kissed.
Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness
Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.
“Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”
Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners.
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.”
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.”
Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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.
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That’s why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It’s a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don’t want to die
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Those who consider weak the people mastered by their passions are like that crazy doctor who named a man to be fool just because he had seen him suffering of fever.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What's a sundial in the shade?”
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles.
“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.”
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.”
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
“Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.”
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. Walking is the best medicine.
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.
In sloth and strenuous amusements the pleasures are followed by sorrows, but the diligence of virtue and the prudent management of life always offer pure and safer pleasures.
Our Democracy destroys itself because it has abused the right to freedom and equality, because has learned the citizens to consider the insolence as right, illegality as freedom, the impudence of speech as equality and anarchy as bliss.
Do not laugh at any calamity because destiny is common and the future unknown.
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
If you don't embrace yourself first, do not expect from others to do so. Love the person because it's you.
Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
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
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well
People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.
The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
Small things amuse small minds.
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
Few men think, yet all will have opinions. Hence men’s opinions are superficial and confused
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
Ignorance is a dreadful thing and has caused no end of damage to the human race.
“it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.
Anarchy is synonymous with Socialism. Because both signify the abolition of exploitation and of the domination of man over man, whether maintained by the force of arms or by the monopolization of the means of life.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.
I sing because the moment exists
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Freely we serve Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.”
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
“If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.”
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.
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
The remedy (or psychotherapy) against sadness caused by the world's misery is to do something about it.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I don’t know any other way of loving.
"Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.
Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved ones for their own good because we think we know better than them what is good and what is bad for them, what is right and what is wrong in their thinking.
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
“I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.”
When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
Just because you don't take an interest in politics, doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you.
We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.”
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
Someone is arrogant because he thinks he has to prove something. And this is a symptom of internal insecurity.
Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.
I still can't believe that some pseudocritics continue to accuse me of having murdered tango
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
Wise people speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
“The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.”
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise.
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible
I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
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.
Ancient Greece offers us a language which I will say is ecumenical. Everyone should learn Greek, because the Greek language helps us first and foremost to understand our own language.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.
Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.”
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?
The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being merely the play of thought.
Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.
It is the work that matters, not the applause that follows.
have learned from those who know how to preserve the tradition of music. I play music the way it used to be played.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel all day.
What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.
Always desire to learn something useful.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.
Glory to those with souls devoid of fear, Who for the people's cause did bravely die…
Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
Whatever bad happens to your house not to be disclosed .
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."
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves..
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
“There are desires to return, to love, to not disappear, and there are desires to die, fought by two opposing waters that have never isthmused.”
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
“This story is true because I made it up.”
There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. ”
Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
“Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
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Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.