Browse quotes by author:
- "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. "
- "At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference. "
- "Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. "
- "Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages ..."
- "Don't forget to love yourself. "
- "During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take ..."
- "Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not ..."
- "God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does ..."
- "How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they ..."
- "I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove ..."
- "I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my ..."
- "I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do ..."
- "It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey. "
- "It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is ..."
- "It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was ..."
- "Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to ..."
- "Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward. "
- "Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth ..."
- "Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. "
- "Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting ..."
- "Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he ..."
- "Once you label me you negate me. "
- "One can advise comfortably from a safe port. "
- "Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. "
- "People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, ..."
- "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they ..."
- "Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. "
- "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. "
- "Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. "
- "The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature ..."
- "The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls ..."
- "The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is ..."
- "The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. "
- "There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how ..."
- "To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. "
- "Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. "
- "When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking ..."
