315 quotes found
“The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.”
“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.”
“What our age lacks is not reflection but passion.”
“Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays.”
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
“To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.”
“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.”
“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 s...”
“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 ...”
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
“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. Pleasure disappoi...”
“Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you wil...”
