Wisdom Sayings

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine Must drown the memory of that insolence!

You are not a fish; how do you know what makes a fish happy?

A man must not be without shame. The shame of being without shame is the shame of being without shame indeed.

If a man's desires are not regulated by the Way, he cannot but dispute with others.

I will make a star-chamber matter of it.

People are afraid of the truth, of real love, of being loved.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

I am the most intensely and profusely social of all men, but I must have a quantity of clear, solitary, penetrating, and uncomforting observation.

Let my son Mustafa be executed.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

I was born a slave, but I have the right to be free.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

I am quite content to pay the price. Let the Irish be the first to understand that I am a free man.

The human face is the most astounding and the most grotesque of all objects in the world.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.