Archives: Quotes

Smile, breathe and go slowly.

A single lamp may light hundreds of thousands of lamps without itself being diminished.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

Knowledge has three degrees: opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.