Philosopher

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

Kebenaran adalah mimpi, kecuali mimpi saya itu benar.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

Budaya sedang berada di ujung tanduk pada dilema ini: secara mendalam dan luhur hal itu harus tetap langka, secara umum itu harus menjadi berarti.

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.