Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.