Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.
I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.
it is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order.
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.
Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. It results from over-motivation- leading to errors that lead to an underestimation of one's self. Work out your anxieties on paper and read. This calms the mind.
Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.