💬 Quotes

"Growth is simply the outward expression of an inward life; it cannot be manufactured, it must be developed from a living germ."

"Death is not the cessation of existence, but the separation from the source of life; eternal life is the indwelling of the Divine in the human soul."

"A red patch on a canvas is valuable simply because it is a red patch. It is not in spite of its being unliked, or in consequence of its being liked, but just because it is what it is, that the critic and the people are beginning to wax ecstatic over it."

"With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

"Charity creates a multitude of sins."

"The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man's intelligence... and as I have pointed out, the majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism—they are forced, by the pressure of public opinion, to starve and spoil their true selves."

"Public opinion constitutes on immorality. For everyone in this community is working at the mechanical formation of the opinion of everyone else."

"A man is not poor of his own will: and as for the working classes, they are wiser than the capitalists, because they grasp the true meaning of life and its pleasures better than those who employ them."

"In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels."

"Outbursts of emotion are neural hijackings. At those moments, evidence suggests, a center in the limbic brain... seizes control of the rest of the brain."

"Self-awareness means having a simultaneous awareness of both inner states and what the mind is doing about them."

"The ability to discard a pressing emotional urge in pursuit of a longer-term goal is the root of self-control, whatever the domain."

"Empathy hinges on self-awareness; the more open we are to our own emotions, the more skilled we will be in reading feelings."

"The rules for work are changing. We are being judged by a new yardstick: not just how smart we are, or our training and expertise, but also how well we handle ourselves and each other."

"La science est faite d'amas de faits, comme une maison est faite de pierres; mais une accumulation de faits n'est pas plus une science qu'un tas de pierres n'est une maison."

"Penser ne doit jamais rien abdiquer, sous peine de n'être plus rien."

"Le doute méthodique ne doit pas être stérile ; il ne doit servir qu'à faire place nette pour rebâtir."

"La science ne nous fait pas connaître les choses telles qu'elles sont en elles-mêmes, mais les rapports entre les choses; en dehors de ces rapports, il n'y a pas de connaissance connaissable."

"Si le savant n'avait pas de vue d'ensemble sur le problème qu'il étudie, sa science serait purement passive et incapable de prévoir."

"Il n'y a pas de géométrie absolue, comme il n'y a pas d'espace absolu; ce qui est plus commode, c'est ce que nous appelons plus vrai."