#philosophy

"Remember, every failure makes you stronger and wiser."

"A kiss is a flower of love, a sweet song of two hearts, and a memory of eternal desires."

"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

"I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful"

"Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny of unexamined systems."

"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible"

"You came from love, to live in love, to give away love, and to become love."

"You have to let go better to embrace the best."

"If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself"

"I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen"

"Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential."

"Transubstantiation [10w] Transubstantiate digression into confessionand drink from poetry's Holy Grail."

"...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes."

"J'ai lu les postmodernistes avec un certain intérêt avec même admiration. Mais quand je les lis, j'ai toujours cet horrible sentiment lancinant que quelque chose d'absolument essentiel est oublié. Plus on dit qu'une personne est un produit social, ou un confluent de forces ou fragmentée, ou marginalisée et plus on ouvre tout un nouveau monde d'excuses."

"Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines."

"Home Never give up a home for a house;you may never find a home again."

"Seek opportunities to help and you will be a success"

"Sometimes it's Love and Sometimes the... [10w] ...tingling sensation of excitement, happiness, and nervousnessis jock itch."

"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!"

"Never say no to now"