“Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.”

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life.

Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.

Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.