Quotes About Wisdom

Lebe so, als ob du zum zweiten Male lebtest und das erste Mal alles so falsch gemacht hättest, wie du es zu machen im Begriffe bist.

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time wrongly as you are about to act now

Vivez chaque moment de votre vie comme si vous viviez pour la deuxième fois.

This emphasis on responsibleness is reflected in the categorical imperative of logotherapy, which is: Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now! It seems to me that there is nothing which would stimulate a man's sense of responsibleness more than this maxim, which invites him to imagine first that the present is past and, second, that the past may yet be changed and amended.

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!...imagine first that the present is past and, second, that the past may yet be changed and amended.

el acto del amor y el acto del conocimiento se designaran en hebreo con la misma palabra.

The ultimate meaning necessarily exceeds and surpasses the finite intellectual capacities of man.

One of his favorite lines was that talking is overrated.

Every year his world felt like it got a little smaller. Maybe that was just the way things went as people aged.

He thinks he knows it all," said Anstey. "Most fools do," retorted Thorndyke. "They arrive at their knowledge by intuition—a deuced easy road and cheap travelling too.

when a man blends truth and falsehood skillfully in one comprehensive statement, it is difficult to tell the veracities from the fibs.

Experience could not be acquired from the innocent, and in a way it is a schooling for the innocence we eventually acquire in a wife. If you have not known the devil you can never appreciate an angel.

Nimium ne crede colori

Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.

Happy he who was able to know the causes of things (felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas), and who trampled beneath his feet all fears, inexorable fate, and the roar of devouring hell.

Nunc scio quit sit amor.

Yo temo al Griego, aunque presente dones.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuuabit.

obscuris vera involvens:

Time carries all things, even our wits, away.

Pars stupet innuptae donum exitiale Minervae, et molem mirantur equi;

Through pain I've learned To comfort suffering men.

to be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty.