There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.
For we walk by faith, not by sight
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
I think, therefore I am.
It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.
Resist much. Obey little.
You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.