Society and the World

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into Freedom.

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.

What’s a man’s first duty? The answer’s brief: to be himself.

Thinking is the endeavor to capture reality by the means of ideas.

“Every man has his price.” This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Integrity which has been attacked by no temptation can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to the test, of which therefore the true value cannot be assigned.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. This is a clear prescription for disaster.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. This is a clear prescription for disaster.

Teaching is an act of love, a spiritual cohabitation, one of the few sacred relationships left in a crass secular world.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Although tact is a virtue, it is very closely allied to certain vices; the line between tact and hypocrisy is a very narrow one. I think the distinction comes in the motive.

Although tact is a virtue, it is very closely allied to certain vices; the line between tact and hypocrisy is a very narrow one. I think the distinction comes in the motive.

Tact consists in knowing how far to go in going too far.

Don’t flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

it is the universal or divine blood that flows through us all.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

We mount to heaven mostly on the ruins of our cherished schemes, finding our failures were successes.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.