Insist on yourself; Never imitate... Every Great man is unique. |
Insist upon yourself. Be original. |
Insist upon yourself. Be original. |
Intellect annuls Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. |
Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity |
Invention breeds invention. |
Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. |
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? |
Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion? |
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past? |
It came into him life, it went out from him truth. It came to him short-lived actions; it went from him poetry. It was a dead fact; now, it is quick thought. It can stand, and it can go. It now endures, it now flies, it now inspires. Precisely in porportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it live. |
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word. |
It is a happy talent to know how to play. |
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances. |
It is a luxury to be understood. |