Quotes

It is easy to be good when all is well; it is in hardship that heroes are known!

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

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.

Where there is no law, there is no freedom.

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

Stand out of my sun.

I am a citizen of the world.

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.