For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy...
I've always wanted all or nothing!
You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it--which i...
I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.
The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular. In
It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.
Let us become servants in order to be leaders.
The need for beauty and the [artistic] creation which embodies it is inseparable from man, and without it man would possibly not want to live in the world.
The important thing is not to lie to yourself. He who lies to himself and listens to his own lies reaches a state in which he no longer recognizes truth either in himself or in others, and so he cease...
The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
Warn you that my friend is a compound personality, and therefore it is difficult to blame him as an individual.
لقد تعلموا الكذب و أحبوه و عرفوا مواطن الجمال فيه ،ربما بدأ الأمر بريئاً على سبيل المزاح أو الغنج و الدعابة و اللعب . و حقيقة الأمر أن االبداية كانت ذرة ، و أن ذرة الكذب تلك تسربت الى قلوبهم و أعجبتهم...
…Ëndërrimtari, po t’i bëjmë një përkufizim të hollësishëm, nuk është njeri, por, si me thënë, një krijesë e gjinisë së mesme. Gjallon të shumtën e kohës në ndonjë kënd të humbur, a thua se i fshihet e...
وأزدادت وطأة وحدتي وصمتي حتى أصبحتُ لا أجرؤ على أن أخرج منها...
…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.
He was one of that countless and multifarious legion of vulgar persons, sickly abortions and half-educated petty tyrants who like a flash attach themselves to the current ideas that are most fashionab...
It's as if I'm afraid to spoil the charm of what has only just passed by a serious book or some serious occupation. As if this ugly dream and all the impressions it left behind are so dear to me that...
The enjoyment of the sufferer finds expression in those moans; if he did not feel enjoyment in them he would not moan.
Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may th...
I was a coward and a slave. I say this without the slightest embarrassment. Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave.
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