315 quotes found
“My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it.”
“Truth is not introduced into the individual from without but was within him all the time.”
“Without risk faith is an impossibility.”
“Adversity not only draws people together but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.”
“If an Arab in the desert were suddenly to discover a spring in his tent and so would always be able to have water in abundance how fortunate he would consider himself so too when a man who ... is a...”
“People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.”
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
“If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power but for the passionate sense of the potential for the eye which ever young and ardent sees the possible . . . what wine is so s...”
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
“Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays.”
“Teach me O God not to torture myself not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.”
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forward.”
“Something wonderful has happened to me. I was carried up into the seventh heaven. There all the gods sat assembled. By special grace I was granted the favor of a wish. "Will you," said Mercury, "ha...”
“When I was young, I forgot how to laugh in the cave of Trophonius; when I was older, I opened my eyes and beheld reality, at which I began to laugh, and since then, I have not stopped laughing. I s...”
“It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was a jest and applauded. He repeated his warning. They shouted even louder. So I ...”
