We give advice by the bucket, 

but take it by the grain.

In the fight between you and the world, 

back the world.

If you hate a person, 

you hate something in him that is part of yourself. 

What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

An open foe may prove a curse, 

but a pretended friend is worse.

Nature never deceives us; 

it is we who deceive ourselves.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The man who voyages strange seas must 

of necessity 

be a little unsure of himself. 

It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, 

who is always with it, 

that we should beware of.

The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

My thought is me: 

that is why I cannot stop thinking. 

I exist because I think 

I cannot keep from thinking.

Imagination disposes of everything; 

it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, 

which are everything in this world.

While living 

I want to live well.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, 

something the best people have always done.

Joy is 

of the will which labours, 

which overcomes obstacles, 

which knows triumph.

There is no better high than discovery.

Study nature, 

love nature, 

stay close to nature. 

It will never fail you.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Thinking is the best way to travel.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

One sees great things from the valley; 

only small things from the peak.

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. 

You should never trifle with Nature.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

If a tree dies, 

plant another in its place.

What beauty is, 

I know not, 

though it adheres to many things.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

You have to assert something about yourself 

in order to be yourself.

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. 

I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

There is only one valuable thing in art: 

the thing you cannot explain.

I was born not knowing 

and have had only a little time 

to change that 

here and there.

Tell me what you pay attention to 

and I will tell you who you are.

The heights of popularity and patriotism 

are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. 

Not to dare is to lose oneself.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, 

and which any honest man will ask himself, 

is whether a doctrine is true or false.

I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, 

having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings 

of little countries, little coteries, little sects, 

rises above all these categories 

and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.

It is far better to foresee 

even without certainty 

than not to foresee at all.

The beginning is always today.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

Every language is a world. 

Without translation, 

we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

Seek not the favour of the multitude; 

it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. 

But seek the testimony of few; 

and number not voices, 

but weigh them.

 

Cheerfulness, it would appear, 

is a matter which depends fully 

as much on the state of things within, 

as on the state of things without and around us.

Ordinary men live among marvels 

and feel no wonder, 

grow familiar with objects 

and learn nothing new about them.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

You're on earth. 

There's no cure for that.

In matters of style, 

swim with the current; 

in matters of principle, 

stand like a rock.

God is the only being who,

in order to reign, 

doesn't even need to exist.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Fear of things invisible 

is the natural seed 

of that which everyone 

in himself 

calleth religion.

The thought is a deed. 

Of all deeds 

she fertilises the world most.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

The way to know life is to love many things.