Quotes to inspire and reflect

Live the questions.

I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Such prosperity as we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.

My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed.

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion.

There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . .

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it.

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought to law to weed it out.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.

Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters.