#philosophy

"Δύο υπερβολές : ν' αποκλείουμε το Λόγο, και να μη δεχόμαστε παρά μόνο το Λόγο."

"Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so."

"It's harder to make the glass than break the glass."

"The summer's flower is to the summer sweetThough to itself it only live and die"

"Persistence, perseverance, and continuous improvement are the ingredients for forming a successful person."

"There is until there isn’t. That’s just the way it is. Until it isn’t."

"Only positive thoughts can inspire you to positive actions."

"One always has a choice."

"The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly."

"There are no separations—only connections. There are no deaths—only transformations."

"When you desire to help, you will find a way to do it."

"We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all."

"You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth."

"Fas est ab hoste doceri.One should learn even from one's enemies."

"The Warrior's Way To the warrior,peace is an annoying interruption of war."

"Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order."

"If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?"

"Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the conservative philosophy. It's a liberating philosophy. It is a magnificent philosophy. It is a philosophy for the ages, for all times."

"What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness."

"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here."