Quotes

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational.

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Stand out of my sun.

I am a citizen of the world.

It is sweet, when on the great sea the winds trouble the waters, to watch from land another’s great struggle.

Nothing can be created out of nothing.

I am never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when alone.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

The ego is not master in its own house.