Tarihte bir başarının ahlaki değeri asla pratik faydasıyla ölçülmez, insanlığa kalıcı bir zenginlik katanlar, insanlığın bilgisini çoğaltıp yaratıcı gücünü arttıranlardır. syf-230
Sólo hay una cosa que cansa a los hombres: la vacilación, la incertidumbre. Cualquier acción libera nuestro ánimo, incluso la peor resulta mejor que la inacción.
Sabahtan geceye kadar bir şeyler beklenir, ancak hiçbir şey olmaz. Beklenir durulur. Hiçbir şey olmaz. Beklenir, beklenir, beklenir; düşünülür, düşünülür, şakaklar ağrıyana kadar düşünülür. Hiçbir şey...
Pity, like morphine, does the sick good only at first. It is a means of helping them to feel better, but if you don't get the dose right and know where to stop it becomes a murderous poison.
Pero incluso con sus favoritos, el destino no siempre se muestra magnánimo. Rara vez conceden los dioses a los mortales más de una hazaña única e imperecedera.
Pero aun las ideas, por más insustanciales que parezcan, necesitan un punto de apoyo, de lo contrario empiezan a girar insensatas en derredor de sí mismas; ellas tampoco soportan la nada. De la mañana...
Only he knows that no task on earth is more burdensome and difficult than to maintain one’s intellectual and moral independence and preserve it unsullied through a mass cataclysm.
Mutluyken adil davranmak, mutsuzken adil davranmaktan daima daha kolaydır. syf- 160
In the last analysis it seems likely that they were wiser than I, all those friends in Vienna, because they suffered everything only when it really happened, whereas I had already suffered the disaste...
If today I were to counsel a young writer who is still unsure of his way, I would try to persuade him first to adapt or translate a sizable work. In all sacrificing service there is more assurance for...
I wanted to go back over what I had so fleetingly experienced step by step, relishing in retrospect by virtue of that magical self-deception we call memory.
I saw how the idea, still colourless, nothing but pure and flowing heat, streamed from the furnace of his impulsive excitement like the molten metal to make a bell, then gradually, as it cooled, took...
I had never even thought of Edith as a member of the opposite sex; it had never even so much as crossed my mind that her crippled body was possessed of the same organs, that her soul harboured the sam...
I could never bring myself to read through contracts or arrangements destined for my scrutiny and subject to my care. In truth this was not so much a philosophical mistrust for the worldly, the mundan...
Hiçbir şeyin benim için gerçekleşmediği, ama yine de her şeyin bana dahil olduğu duygusunu taşıyordum yalnızca; ilgisiz kalsam da, çok derin ve çok gerçek şeyler tadıyor olmak müthiş mutluluk veren bi...
Hiçbir şey zekayı tutkulu bir kuşku kadar bileyemez. Hiçbir şey olgunlaşmamış bir zihnin bütün olanaklarını karanlıkta kaybolan bir iz kadar harekete geçiremez.
Heyecanımın içine bir aralıktan giren soğuk hava akımı gibi utanç sızmıştı.
Formerly man had only a body and a soul. Now he needs a passport as well for without it he will not be treated like a human being.
For vanity, too, inebriates; gratitude, too, intoxicates; tenderness, too, can blissfully confuse the senses.
For the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.