I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.
Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.
Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world)
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury.
People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once. . . But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?
Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet comforting and strengthening influence on the wearied mind, calm the storm of passion, and soften the heart when shaken by sorrow to its inmost depths.
Before being free, it is necessary to be just
All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing—of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes one’s soul a reflection of the partner’s moods. And as a room seems larger when it is lined with mirrors, so do the joys become amplified. And as the individual items within the mirrored room seem less acute, so does pain diminish and fade, stretched thin by the sharing. That is the beauty of love, whether in passion or friendship. A sharing that multiplies the joys and thins the pains.
Scientists never stop asking. They're little kids who never grew up.
Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.