Always be a poet, 

even in prose.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Only that in you which is me 

can hear what I'm saying.

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed 

if you are to do something significant.

The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come 

when life seems most challenging.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say 

and can't, 

and the other half who have nothing to say 

and keep on saying it.

All knowledge is precious 

whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Being with the mainstream isn't very difficult — 

the tide is powerful, 

and it is easy to let it sweep us along with it. 

But going against the tide is very difficult. 

First of all, one must recognise very exactly what the tide is 

and where it is going.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

The line between good and evil is permeable 

and almost anyone can be induced to cross it 

when pressured by situational forces.

 

When you run into something interesting, 

drop everything else and study it.

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy

 — which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever — 

this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

One has only as much morality 

as one has philosophy and poetry.

I see Earth! 

It is so beautiful!

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, 

but I will climb alone.

The promises of this world are, 

for the most part, 

vain phantoms; 

and to confide in one's self, 

and become something of worth and value 

is the best and safest course.

Only you can control your future.

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. 

Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, 

and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.

If you would hit the mark, 

you must aim a little above it.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; 

change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Every dogma has its day.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! 

and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character 

is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

Every philosophy is tinged with the colouring of some secret imaginative background, 

which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

The greatest happiness 

of the greatest number 

is the foundation of morals and legislation.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

A lie would have no sense 

unless the truth were felt dangerous.

There is nothing so strong or safe 

in an emergency of life 

as the simple truth.

Your mind will answer most questions 

if you learn to relax 

and wait for the answer.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

I must have something to engross my thoughts, 

some object in life which will fill this vacuum, 

and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

There can be no happiness 

if the things we believe in 

are different from 

the things we do.

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, 

nor alone in the world of social activity 

as ordinarily understood, 

but are very much at the mercy of 

the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, 

Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces 

That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Truth is the daughter of time, 

not of authority.

Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, 

and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. 

But if that is cut off, 

what is left will not be a scientist. 

And I doubt whether it will be a man.

The tyranny of a prince 

in an oligarchy 

is not so dangerous to the public welfare 

as the apathy of a citizen 

in a democracy.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Success is not the key to happiness. 

Happiness is the key to success. 

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Not all those who wander are lost.