Vertigo

Music causes us to think eloquently.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter; and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits, which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person’s genius is confined to a very few hours.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Dharma is what the Buddha taught. It is the way of understanding and love-how to understand, how to love, how to make understanding and love into real things.

He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.