Emotions and Feelings

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

Blind alleys and garden paths leading nowhere are the principal hazards in research.

Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied.

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

I pick up favorite quotations, and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man’s speech with other men’s jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. Anybody can behave well when things are going smoothly.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

Don’t get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong. Problems make one better able to cope with life.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

One cares so little for the style in which one’s praises are written.

One cares so little for the style in which one’s praises are written.

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise— although the philosophers generally call it “recognition.”

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise— although the philosophers generally call it “recognition.”

The applause of a single human being is of a great consequence.

The applause of a single human being is of a great consequence.