“I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most important things, those that shape our existence, are precisely the ones that never show their faces.”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 114 of 303
“No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent.”
“Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.”
“What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.”
“He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.”
“The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion.”
“It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.”
“You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.”
“To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.”
“If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.”
“If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection”
“That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.”
“Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.”
“Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.”
“Neither will the horse be adjudged to be generous, that is sumptuously adorned, but the horse whose nature is illustrious; nor is the man worthy who possesses great wealth, but he whose soul is generous.”
“People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.”
“If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important.”
“It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.”
“Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes”
“Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.”