Verum Insights

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”

A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.”

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.”

“People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.”

“Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.”

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”

“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the sam

“A real diamond is never perfect.”

bove all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”

“Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.”

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What does the body matter if the soul is dead?”

“I'd rather see your honest pain than a brave front.