Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Even Albert Einstein reportedly needed help on his 1040 form.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.

In the depth of winter, I learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

Live to the point of tears.

As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness!

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind.

The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom ''charitable'' souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. Albert Einstein It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

I love my country too much to be a nationalist.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

We're really excited. I'm just happy for Alberta. She's worked so hard. She deserves it. She's paid her dues and she deserves it.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest -- whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories -- comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future --and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.