Oneself Quotes

In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.

One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.

The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.

Seeing your face so high in fragments on the sky, your voice in the wind, just one day I’d like to be in your arms once again.

There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.

My dad used to tell me ‘opinions are like assholes, everybody has one’

My soul, be satisfied with flowers, with fruit, with weeds even; but gather them in the one garden you may call your own.

When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.

The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.