reflection Quotes

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

It's a funny old world.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.