Which Quotes

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Some people think I am gay, which I think is awesome.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.