Power is no blessing in itself, 

except when it is used to protect the innocent.

As you think, 

so shall you become.

What most experimenters take for granted 

before they begin their experiments 

is infinitely more interesting 

than any results to which their experiments lead.

He alone is free 

who lives with free consent 

under the entire guidance of reason.

Only thought can resemble. 

It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; 

it becomes what the world offers it.

A mind cannot be independent of culture.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

The facts of science are real enough, 

and so are the techniques that scientists use, 

and so are the technologies based on them. 

But the belief system 

that governs conventional scientific thinking 

is an act of faith.

It is not so much for its beauty 

that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, 

as for that subtle something, 

that quality of air that emanation from old trees, 

that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. 

The more truth we have to work with, 

the richer we become.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view 

are more pleasing than 

those crowded with fruition.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, 

we must educate our masters, 

labour and capital, 

in art.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

To unfold the secret laws and relations 

of those high faculties of thought 

by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge

 of the world and of ourselves 

is attained or matured, 

is an object which does not stand in need of commendation 

to a rational mind.

Pity those whom nature abuses; 

never those who abuse nature.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Think for yourself and question authority.

The self is not something ready-made, 

but something in continuous formation 

through choice of action.

Wherever anything lives, 

there is, 

open somewhere, 

a register in which time is being inscribed.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, 

and his punishment is that he sees the dawn 

before the rest of the world.

To be nobody but yourself 

in a world which is doing its best, 

night and day, 

to make you everybody else 

means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; 

and never stop fighting.

The joy of life consists in 

the exercise of one's energies, 

continual growth, 

constant change, 

the enjoyment of every new experience.

I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, 

but the opposite of one profound truth 

may very well be 

another profound truth.

The world does not speak. 

Only we do.

There is always one moment in childhood 

when the door opens 

and lets the future in.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

When you read and understand a poem, 

comprehending its rich and formal meanings, 

then you master chaos a little.

As the ego cogito, 

subjectivity is the consciousness 

that represents something, 

relates this representation back to itself, 

and so gathers with itself.

We are drowning in information, 

while starving for wisdom.

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

Human history becomes more and more 

a race between education and catastrophe.

He that overvalues himself 

will undervalue others, 

and he that undervalues others 

will oppress them.

In short, not only are things not what they seem, 

they are not even what they are called!

A wise man thinks it more advantageous 

not to join the battle 

than to win.

One may believe in an idea absolutely, 

but not in a man.

All the world is birthday cake, 

so take a piece, 

but not too much.

We soon believe the things we would believe.

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

Today and always, 

there will be an obligation 

to pass on to the new generation 

the tradition of liberal scholarship 

– scientific or in the humanities – 

and to bring the understanding 

of things and human actions 

to everyone.

If intelligence is the triumph of life, 

the spoken word is the marvellous means by which 

this intelligence is manifested.

To love our neighbour as ourselves 

is such a truth for regulating human society, 

that by that alone 

one might determine all the cases in social morality.

Everything in writing begins with language. 

Language begins with listening.

Languages are true analytical methods.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.