We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

Creativity takes courage.

Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.

Words are, 

of course, 

the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Don't care what people say. 

Don't give a damn about their laws.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Writing is like carrying a fœtus.

Sham liberty will be proclaimed everywhere.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

We die daily. 

Happy those who daily come to life as well.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

They also serve who only stand and wait.

Climate is what we expect, 

weather is what we get.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, 

for he shall never be disappointed.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason

Love is a great beautifier.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

God depends on us. 

It is through us that God is achieved.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, 

and we see nothing but sand; 

the angels come to visit us, 

and we only know them when they are gone.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. 

We must feel and be affected by it.

The answers you get from literature 

depend on the questions you pose.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, 

while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

I have always worked better alone 

and from my own impressions.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

Where wealth accumulates, 

men decay.

In the depth of winter 

I finally learned 

that there was in me 

an invincible summer.

 Beauty is nothing but the expression 

of the fact that 

something is being loved. 

I have never yet met a healthy person 

who worried very much about his health, 

or a really good person 

who worried much about his own soul.

If you want to be successful, 

it's just this simple. 

Know what you are doing. 

Love what you are doing. 

And believe in what you are doing.

The image is more than an idea.

It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas 

and is endowed with energy.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

It takes a long time to become young.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly 

as when they discuss it freely.

There is still a difference between something and nothing,

but it is purely geometrical

and there is nothing behind the geometry.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, 

especially tools to make tools.

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; 

once we begin to see, 

we are doomed 

and challenged 

to seek the strength 

to see more, 

not less.

Under conditions of tyranny 

it is far easier to act than to think.

Risk! 

Risk anything! 

Care no more for the opinions of others, 

for those voices. 

Do the hardest thing on earth for you. 

Act for yourself. 

Face the truth.

I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

One learns more from listening than speaking. 

And both the wind 

and the people who continue to live close to nature 

still have much to tell us 

which we cannot hear 

within university walls.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

The best way to find yourself 

is to lose yourself 

in the service of others.

Socialism is the ideal state, 

but it can never be achieved 

while man is so selfish.

Do not be misled by what you see around you, 

or be influenced by what you see. 

You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, 

full of false paths, false values and false ideals. 

But you are not part of that world.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, 

by relating that we observe, 

by affirming that we examine, 

by showing that we look, 

by writing that we think, 

by pumping that we draw water into the well.