If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.

If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you can take action and use it.

In school, you are given the lesson first. One the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.

My anger is more likely to do me more harm than your wrong.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

Life is short. Time is fast. No replay, no rewind. Enjoy every moment as it comes.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.