The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
The lie is a condition of life.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
