I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.
Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Enlightenment is man's leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.
I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life. . . I go out to find people who resemble me, and the mirror which these images offer them is the same as that in which I see myself.
Take all the Syrians, for example. They are where they need to be. They don't need saving. They are having their experiences and they're completing what they need to complete within this human element, in this complete illusion.
At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.
Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!