Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.