We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Fear is uncertainty.
No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other.
It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and p...
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.
We are made kind by being kind.
It is thus with most of us we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.