Quotes

A whole society, and each person on their own as well, when not guided by sound reason and wise counsel, must of necessity suffer and fall into ruin.

We people are like birds that always get caught in the same nets and still will not listen.

The reasonable keep getting better, while the unreasonable either stay as they were or, what is more likely, if they do not improve, keep getting worse.

When you follow the struggle between two political groups and want to know which is more in the right and has the better prospects of victory, pay attention to which of the two sides uses lies as a means of struggle to a greater extent, and know that that side will be defeated.

Freedom, complete freedom, is a dream, a dream that is most often not destined to come true, but wretched is everyone who has never dreamed it.

The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.

There is no resurrection without death.

No one has yet drunk a cup of honey that a cup of gall did not make bitter.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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

The old Lakota knew that man’s heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.

Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.