To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
Do not forget that even as “to work is to worship” so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.
The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.
Rembrandt’s first name was Beauregard, which is why he never used it.
The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.
The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.
Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.
The question was, which would the chemo kill first: the cancer or me?
Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time.
She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.
I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
You are demoted from First Tiger to bulk rate.
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.
Fear first created the gods.