An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.