💬 Quotes

"Knowledge is a fire that warms those who tend it, but consumes those who are careless with its heat."

"It was just some ignorance inside me, some ignorance of my own, that caused it."

"I was beginning to see that Phineas could get away with anything. He possessed a way of convincing people that he was immune to the rules of life."

"Wars were not made by history and things like that. Wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart."

"Phineas, in spite of his love for school, was the only one of us who never really studied. He was a natural athlete, and he believed that sports were the only thing that mattered."

"I gave it all to his lordship. All my best years. And I suppose I have a right to ask myself now: what does it all add up to?"

"Oh! the happiness of being two! To be but one! To be a world to each other!"

"A priest is a man, and a man is a sinner, and a sinner is a devil."

"In the Middle Ages, the human race had no thought that it did not write down in stone. Every religious idea, every social dogma, has its chapter in this great book."

"He who has once loved, is not a man who can ever be consoled."

"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; The name that can be named is not the eternal name."

"The wise man does his job and then stops. He understands that if he goes too far, he will be frustrated by the way things are."

"By letting it go, it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning."

"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness."

"He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened."

"Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub; it is the center hole that makes it useful. Shape clay into a vessel; it is the space within that makes it useful."

"I am done with this war. I have made a stop to it. I have quit it. I do not care if it goes on forever or if it ends tomorrow."

"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum."

"It is a hard thing to leave life, but a harder thing to stay and watch it be consumed by others."

"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden."