“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
As quoted in Path for Greatness : Spiritualty at Work (2000) by Linda J. Ferguson, p. 51
“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
“The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.”
Appears in Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981), "The Beauty"
Also attributed to Rumi (persian mystic and poet).
Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)
“They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.”
Source: 1984
“He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.”
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Marita in Ch. 11
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)
“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”
Source: Discourse on Method (Rozprava o metodě)
“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.”
Não há nenhuma ideia inteligente que possa ganhar aceitação geral sem ser misturada antes com um pouco de estupidez.
The Book of Disquietude, trans. Richard Zenith, text 104
“To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
A literatura é a maneira mais agradável de ignorar a vida.
Variant: To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.
Source: The Book of Disquietude, trans. Richard Zenith, text 116
“In order to understand, I destroyed myself.”
A Factless Autobiography, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006, p. 73
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Para compreender, destruí-me.
