Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The best way to find out 

if you can trust somebody 

is to trust them.

Life isn't about finding yourself.

Life is about creating yourself.

The key is to keep company 

only with people who uplift you, 

whose presence calls forth your best.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Time flies over us, 

but leaves its shadow behind.

To himself everyone is immortal; 

he may know that he is going to die, 

but he can never know that he is dead.

The aim of life is appreciation; 

there is no sense in not appreciating things; 

and there is no sense in having more of them 

if you have less appreciation of them.

The roots of all goodness 

lie in the soil of appreciation 

for goodness.

Words ought to be a little wild, 

for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

The individual has always had to struggle 

to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. 

If you try it, 

you will be lonely often, 

and sometimes frightened. 

But no price is too high to pay 

for the privilege of owning yourself.

All men's miseries derive 

from not being able 

to sit in a quiet room 

alone.

Argument is conclusive, 

but it does not remove doubt, 

so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, 

unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; 

it is all within yourself, 

in your way of thinking.

The foot feels the foot 

when it feels the ground.

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

Take, if you must, 

this little bag of dreams, 

Unloose the cord, 

and they will wrap you round.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment 

for which no remedy exists, 

unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Language is a social art.

To begin with, 

we put the proposition: 

pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

The evil that is in the world 

almost always comes of ignorance, 

and good intentions 

may do as much harm as malevolence 

if they lack understanding.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, 

it does not follow that it arises from experience.

The meeting of two personalities 

is like the contact of two chemical substances: 

if there is any reaction, 

both are transformed.

The words printed here are concepts. 

You must go through the experiences.

The job of a citizen 

is to keep his mouth 

open.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, 

but quickly to see how to make them good.

The limits of my language 

means 

the limits of my world.

I hate war 

as only a soldier who has lived it can, 

only as one who has seen 

its brutality, 

its futility, 

its stupidity.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, 

so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. 

To make a deep physical path, 

we walk again and again. 

To make a deep mental path, 

we must think over and over 

the kind of thoughts 

we wish to dominate our lives.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

A human being has so many skins inside, 

covering the depths of the heart.

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, 

it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

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.

In solitude 

the mind gains strength 

and learns to lean upon itself.

We don't receive wisdom; 

we must discover it for ourselves 

after a journey 

that no one can take for us 

or spare us.

A fool sees not the same tree 

that a wise man sees.

I would rather excel 

in the knowledge 

of what is excellent, 

than in the extent 

of my power and possessions.

It is not in the stars 

to hold our destiny 

but in ourselves.

Do not dwell in the past, 

do not dream of the future, 

concentrate the mind on the present moment.

A child-like man is not a man
whose development has been arrested; 

on the contrary, 

he is a man
who has given himself a chance
of continuing to develop 

long after most adults have muffled themselves 

in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

But climb on your tears and be silent 

Like a rose on its ladder of thorns 

... 

Then lay your rose on the fire 

The fire give up to the sun

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: 

It makes what is excellent in others 

belong to us as well.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.