Sublime

Perfection is impossible without humility. “Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?”

It is not the place we occupy which is important, but the direction in which we move.

Read less, study less, but think more. Learn, both from your teachers and from the books which you read, only those things which you really need and which you really want to know.

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre.

‘If you want my opinion concerning that, I’ll tell you that I don’t think there is a drama here. And here’s why. To my mind, love … the two loves that Plato, remember, defines in his Symposium,25 these two loves serve as a touchstone for people.

to understand one and the same thing with certainty and to compose that life of the soul which alone makes life worth living and alone is what we value.

If armed peace and war are ever to be eliminated then it will not be by emperors and by the strong people of this world; war is too advantageous for them. War will cease only when those who suffer most as a result of it come to understand that their fate is in their own hands, and that in order to free themselves from the horrors of war they can