self-discovery Quotes

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

My mind is my own church.

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.