Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible.
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.
For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstances have been against me, I was worthy to be something much better than I have been. I admit I have never had a great love or a great friendship; but that is because I never met a man or a woman who were worthy of it; if I have not written any very good books, it is because I had not the leisure to do so; or, if I have had no children to whom I could devote myself it is because I did not find the man I could have lived with. So there remains within me a wide range of abilities, inclinations and potentialities, unused but perfectly viable, which endow me with a worthiness that could never be inferred from the mere history of my actions.†But in reality and for the existentialist, there is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving; there is no genius other than that which is expressed in works of art.
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts of tiny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.