Philosophical Sayings

It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.

God himself helps those who dare.

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

The barbarian here is me, for I make no sense to anyone.

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

He who can simulate sanity will be sane.

Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

As wave is driven by wave. And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before. Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

Believe me, nothing perishes in all the world; it does but vary and renew its form. What we call birth is but a beginning to be other than what one was before; and death is but a cessation of a former state.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Hate and fear breed a poison in the blood, which if continued, affects eyes, ears, nose, and the organs of digestion.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.

It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.

Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.