Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
ما الذي يقعدك؟.. الفقر؟.. العوز؟.. ولكن الفقر هو الذي يصنع الفنان. وهو أمر لابد منه في البداية. إنك الآن إنسان مهمل، لا يحتاج إليك أحد، ولا يحتاج أحد أن يعرفك.. تلك هي الحياة..
ما أكثر الشرفاء عن غباوة..
لقد عرفت واحدا من هؤلاء الذين لا يكفون عن العمل، ولم يكن من أبناء الشعب على كل حال، وكان رجلا مثقفا يقدر على فهم الظواهر العامة. إنه كان يحلم بالفراغ الكامل والبطالة التامة كل يوم تقريبا، ويجد في هذا...
لا يكفي أن يكون المرء ذكيًا حتى يتصرف بذكاء.
كنت أعرف بأنك ... تحبينني ، ولكني تظاهرت بأنني أعتقد بأنكِ لا تحبيني ... وذلك لأجعلك ... أكثر ارتياحاً
إن المرء ليجد لذة في أدنى درجة من درجات الانخحطاط و المذلة
إن الشفقة في أيامنا هذه يحظرها العلم
In order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are very difficult to correct and get over afterwards.
And though there was no longer anything to be astonished at, still manifest reality always has something shocking about it.
You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home.
You have to be all too basely in love with yourself to write about yourself without shame.
Whoever infringes upon individual 'charity,' I began, infringes upon man's nature and scorns his personal dignity. But the organizing of 'social charity' and the question of personal freedom are two d...
What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example?
Well, sir, it is precisely my notion that one sees and learns most of all by observing our younger generations.
We sometimes choose absolute nonsense because in our foolishness we see in that nonsense the easiest means for attaining a supposed advantage.
To whom is he to go if you are not together, mother and father?
Though these young men unhappily fail to understand that the sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices, and that to sacrifice, for instance, five or six years of their seethin...
There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as...
There have been and still are geometricians and philosophers, and even some of the most distinguished, who doubt whether the whole universe, or to speak more widely the whole of existence, was only cr...