“Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him”
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“Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him”
“The present condition of fame is merely fashion.”
“One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star”
“Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who get the most out of life”
“Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions”
“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things”
“A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others”
“We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.”
“My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of me”
“Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.”
“Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown”
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins”
“Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.”
“A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd.”
“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk”
“Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?”
“I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.”
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.”
“Negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”
“I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom, one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise”