The earth has music for those who listen.
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Memory... is an internal rumor.
There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The bible is literature, not dogma.
Why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
To know your future you must know your past
A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.
