reflection Quotes

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Vanity is but the surface.

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There's just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

I've known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that's so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn't you take university courses throughout your entire life?