Wisdom

The only thing wrong with trying to please everyone is that there's always at least one person who will remain unhappy. You.

We must therefore take account of this changeable nature of things and of human institutions and prepare for them with enlightened foresight.

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

Actually, everyone, in one way or the other is being insulted by ungodliness and injustice, be it racial injustice, inequality, economic injustice, and the spread and campaign of ungodliness sweeping the land.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.

Nothing is more beautiful than beauty of a kind soul.

I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

About anyone so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right; and if we can never be right, it is better that we should from time to time change our way of being wrong.

The art of not reading is a very important one. [. . .] [Y]ou should remember that he who writes for fools always find a large public. – A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: For life is short.

Everyone is useful for specific task.

The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

People who ask you if you’ve ever seen a ghost are always people who believe in ghosts. They’re limbering up to tell their own ghost story. These are always remarkably tedious efforts about feeling as if someone had brushed past them but nobody being there. I always think that if you’re lying anyway you should at least make it interesting.

...Convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain.

Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.

It takes grace to know the word of truth.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Where is the culture of cleanliness?