Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
The only real laughter comes from despair.
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
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.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.