At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. |
At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them. |
Bad cooks -- and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen -- have delayed human development longest and impaired it most. |
Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you. |
Battle not with monsters lest you become one. |
Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past. |
Become who you are. |
Beggars should be abolished entirely! Verily, it is annoying to give to them and it is annoying not to give to them |
Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true. |
Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will, for the will, as emotion of command, is the distinguishing characteristic of sovereignty and power. That is to say, the less a person knows how to command, the more urgent is his desire for one who commands, who commands sternly - a God, a prince, a caste, a physician, a confessor, a dogma, a party consciene. From whence perhaps it could be inferred that the two world religions, Buddhism and Christianity, might well have had the cause of their rise, and especially of their rapid extension, in an extraordinary malady of the will. |
Belief means not wanting to know what is true |
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! |
Better know nothing than half-know many things |
Better living through chemistry |
Blessed are the forgetful; for they get the better even of their blunders |