“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Faith is the force of life.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

Love those you hate you.

Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.

I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.

It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.

You can trust the Bible. You will never be a great Christian until you come to the unshakable conviction that the Bible is the Word of God.

It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.

Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions.

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,

My parents’ convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong.