Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.