Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognise its limits!
Truth can be stated simply, but cannot be understood as such.
Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.
Life is not how we lead it. It is how children are born to lead it.
Our desires are guided by what we believe to be good or bad; our beliefs are directed by our knowledge; our knowledge, in turn, is again a manipulation of our desires. Our Will, during this inexorable...
An apparent misfortune of man is that neither good nor evil is an agency itself; both are equally passive choices. Man himself is the ultimate agency. He has the power to realize and activate the dead...
The fate of man does not chase him as much as he chases his fate.
A successful father is not more successful than his children.
I'd love to be what I have been.
Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.
Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself.
Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one.
We know the value of a blessing when we don't have it. But we only know the value of knowledge when we have enough of it.
Life feels good if you don't know what it is.
Logic is a mere iceberg in the Mediterranean of wisdom.
The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.
If a fact does not modify your logic on being known, either you don't believe the fact or it is not a fact.
The most brutal avenger on earth is a reality you ignored, however minor.
Artist is not human, but humanity.
Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul.