People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

If we are always arriving and departing, 

it is also true that we are eternally anchored. 

One's destination is never a place 

but rather a new way of looking at things.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, 

which stands continually open to our gaze. 

But the book cannot be understood 

unless one first learns to comprehend the language 

and read the letters in which it is composed.

The ability to perceive or think differently 

is more important than the knowledge gained.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

The limits of the possible 

can only be defined 

by going beyond them 

into the impossible.

Society attacks early, 

when the individual is helpless.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye…

it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, 

and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, 

the less he knows it.

There are things known 

and things unknown 

and in between 

are the doors.

The only journey is the one within.

All animals, 

except man, 

know that the principal business of life 

is to enjoy it.

Death not merely ends life, 

it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, 

snatched from the hazardous flux 

to which all things human are subject.

We have enough religion to make us hate, 

but not enough to make us love one another.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers 

as ask the right questions.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Life and death are one thread, 

the same line viewed from different sides.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Intelligence and courtesy 

not always are combined; 

Often in a wooden house 

a golden room we find.

A noble man compares and estimates himself 

by an idea which is higher than himself; 

and a mean man, 

by one lower than himself. 

The one produces aspiration; 

the other ambition, 

which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Music is the emotional life of most people.

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Layer by layer 

art strips life bare.

We're born alone, 

we live alone, 

we die alone. 

Only through our love and friendship 

can we create the illusion 

for the moment 

that we're not alone.

All meanings, 

we know, 

depend on the key of interpretation.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, 

capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

I have found you an argument; 

I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

The most creative people 

have this childlike facility 

to play.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

The unread story is not a story; 

it is little black marks on wood pulp. 

The reader, reading it, makes it live: 

a live thing, a story.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; 

the former begets knowledge, 

the latter ignorance.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

War remains the decisive human failure.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Life is a song — sing it. 

Life is a game — play it. 

Life is a challenge — meet it. 

Life is a dream — realise it. 

Life is a sacrifice — offer it. 

Life is love — enjoy it.

Re-examine all that you have been told... 

dismiss that which insults your soul.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, 

but the best weapon of a democracy should be 

the weapon of openness.

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

The unfed mind devours itself.

Some people will never learn anything, 

for this reason, 

because they understand everything too soon.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

An error is the more dangerous 

in proportion to
the degree of truth which it contains.

In this electronic age 

we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, 

moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil 

is for good men to do nothing.