All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
