The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all
darknesses.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all
darknesses.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block read more

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of read more

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. - The Lonely Crowd.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep read more

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness?

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.

For a long time it has seemed to me that life was about to begin; Real
life. But there was read more

For a long time it has seemed to me that life was about to begin; Real
life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got
through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt
to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these
obstacles were my life.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he read more

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. For it is not by the possession, but the search after truth that he enlarges his power, wherein alone consists his ever-increasing perfection.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it will
but grow and gather to itself such read more

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it will
but grow and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts
through it will blow up everything in its way.