Philosopher

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Habit is stronger than reason.

Tidak ada obat untuk kelahiran dan kematian kecuali untuk menikmati waktu istirahat.

Keahlian adalah seni republik, karena percakapan adalah seni aristokratis.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.