"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."
"Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them, and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it."
"Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change."
"There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory."
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
"The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
"Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to kindness and wisdom we make promises only; pain we obey."
"in Diogenes Laertius ‘Vitae Philosophicus’ IX, 5 The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
"A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped."
"There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for further desires."
"Love is space and time measured by the heart."
"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."
"Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them."
"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."
"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
"People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."
"All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last."
"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
"Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination."
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
"Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best."
"The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing."
"It is desire that engenders belief; if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with our own life."
"And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying."
"We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill the gap."