Life, the permission to know death.
By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i. e. anything we can talk about.
Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.
We do not really think, we are barely conscious, until something goes wrong.
The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.
It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and, withdrawing them, find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man!
Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality.
Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.
We spend countless hours talking about people's feelings and issues that aren't going to change anything.