| Quotes |
Topic |
| Art | Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience — the union of life and peace. |
| Chaos | Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. |
| Science | I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. |
| Conscience | Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. |
| Immortality | Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility. |
| Difficulties | The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. |
| Dignity | Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. |
| Disguise | The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. |
| Emotion | The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. |
| Enjoyment | There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. |
| Fame | The highest form of vanity is love of fame. |
| Family | The family is one of nature's masterpieces. |
| Friendship | Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots. |
| Friendship | One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. |
| Happiness | Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience. |
| History | History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. |
| History | History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. |
| History | Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. |
| Humanity | Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence. |
| Impossibility | The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. |
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