A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.
Individual innovations imply, by virtue of their nature, a "big" step and a "big" change. A railroad through new country, i.e., country not yet served by railroads, as soon as it gets into working order upsets all conditions of location, all cost calculations, all production functions within its radius of influence; and hardly any 'ways of doing things' which have been optimal before remain so afterward.
Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.
Philosophers have no conception of religion as a popular force. If I had to make a religion for philosophers, it would be very different from what I would supply for the credulous.
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.
The losing side is full of suspicion.
