Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!
Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
May God deny you peace but give you glory!
Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.
What is vanity but the longing to survive?
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. . . . What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion.
So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan.