When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.
Arrogance • Humility • Ignorance
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Authority • Politics • Power
If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Advice • Productivity • Reflection
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Family • Happiness • Unhappiness
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
Love • Respect
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
Faith • Force • Human
If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.
Contentment • Expectations • Perfection
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Growth • Improvement
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Happiness • Purpose
Spring is the time of plans and projects.
Motivational • Planning • Productivity
If you want to be happy, be.
Happiness • Improvement • Motivational
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
Death • Mathematics • Perception
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
Grief • Love • Sorrow
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Happiness • Man • Nature
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Change • Life
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Goodness • Greatness • Simplicity
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Art • Communication • Expression
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
Accessibility • Art • Food
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Art • Craftsmanship
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
Knowledge • Philosophy • Wisdom
