Quotes Tagged "things"

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

All things come round to him who will but wait.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

I was transformed the day My ego shattered, And all the superficial, material Things that mattered To me before, Suddenly ceased To matter.

Things don’t have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Even if things aren't going the way we want right now, we will always get through it.