Stability is not immobility

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.