Inspirational Sayings

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Against all things it is possible to provide security, but as against death we all live in an unwalled city.

Music is no different from opium. Music affects the human mind in a way that makes people think of nothing but music and sensual matters.

Imagine that you have died and your life has come to an end. Now think about the life you wish you had lived. Live that life now.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

As a mark is not set up for the purpose of missing the aim, so neither does the nature of evil exist in the universe.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

China needs more soldiers and fewer poets.

I am not a creature of circumstances; I am a creature of principle.

I am part of all that I have met.

We are wont to imagine that it would be a pleasant pastime to be a potato and grow in the dark, but it is not so.

The most dangerous of all errors is to believe that there is no error.

The idea of a well-ordered society is an ideal that we should strive for, even if we can never fully achieve it.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

The highest possible achievement is to be able to live for the present moment, fully and completely.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

The only way to overcome fear is to do what you fear.

The aim of the law is to make man perfect, and it is impossible for man to be perfect so long as his mind is not perfect.