If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don’t.
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Sometimes one day in a different place gives you more than ten years of life at home.
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.