580 quotes found
“I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement it takes place every day.”
“Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which throughout his lifetime he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles.”
“Beauty is unbearable drives us to despair offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”
“We are not certain we are never certain.”
“Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.”
“If there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”
“Psychology is action not thinking about oneself.”
“To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.”
“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward but he who has hope for it is a fool.”
“Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value and its face of eter1nal youth.”
“In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
“Those who love to be feared fear to be loved. Some fear them but they fear everyone.”
“An intense feeling carries with it its own universe magnificent or wretched as the case may be.”
“Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.”
“At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.”
“To know oneself one should assert oneself.”
“If after all men cannot always make history have a meaning they can always act so that their own lives have one.”
“As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.”
“Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.”
“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.”
