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- The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that…
- People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
- Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred…
- Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.
- Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim…
- That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely…
- Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.
- A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he,…
- Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes…
- In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on…
- Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows…
- Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.
- The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.
- Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it…
- It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like…
- With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important…
- The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.
- The word of man is the most durable of all material.
- And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men…
- To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at…
- The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the…
- Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it…
- Truth is most beautiful undraped.
- There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies…
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