Wu-Men

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.

How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course?

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that you don’t know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

A man’s action is only a picture book of his creed.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.