Living and lifetime Quotes

The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness

Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

Man's desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

But to us, probability is the very guide of life

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, by reiteration chiefly

But what is past my help is past my care

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter, often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter, in the eye

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death

The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are

There may be heaven; there must be hell; meantime, there is our earth here - well!

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect