Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
To win true peace a man needs to feel himself directed pardoned and sustained by a supreme power to feel himself in the right road at the point where God would have him be-in order with God and th...
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply chan...
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply cha...
How then find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.
Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Faith is a certitude without proofs ... a sentiment for it is a hope it is an instinct for it precedes all outward instruction.
Almost everything comes from almost nothing.
To learn new habits is everything for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat that is progress.
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Unconsciousness spontaneity instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
How then find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness spontaneity instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. ... By accepting the...
A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied.