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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. »

Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world. »

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. »

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving. »

Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours. »

Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones. »

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. »

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. »

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. »

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible. »

It is the theory that decides what we can observe. »

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I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued. »

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart. »

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows. »
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. »

When one door of happiness closes, another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. »

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. »

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. »

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. »

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. »

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it. »

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. »

The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions. »

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death »

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again. »

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. »

Study the past if you would define the future. »

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. »

It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change. »

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. »

The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything what is right he will follow. »

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. »

I hear and I forget.
I see and I believe.
I do and I understand. »

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