Therefore, in order to do even a little, one has already to know a great deal and to know it well.
Source: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 175
Source: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 175
“One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.”
The Principles of War (1913)
Ancient Medicine
Context: Certain s and physicians say that it is not possible for any one to know medicine who does not know what man is, and that who ever would cure men properly, must learn this in the first place. But this saying rather appertains to philosophy, as Empedocles and certain others have described what man in his origin is, and how he first was made and constructed. But I think whatever such has been said or written by sophist or physician concerning nature has less connexion with the art of medicine than with the art of painting. And I think that one cannot know anything certain respecting nature from any other quarter than from medicine... Wherefore it appears to me necessary to every physician to be skilled in nature, and strive to know... what man is in relation to the articles of food and drink, and to his other occupations, and what are the effects of each of them to every one.<!--pp. 174-175
“There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”
Variant: ... So I stopped talking about it. There's no need to talk, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
Source: The Reader
Dans l'amitié comme dans l'amour on est souvent plus heureux par les choses qu'on ignore que par celles que l'on sait.
Variant translation: In friendship as in love, we are often happier due to the things we are unaware of than the things we know.
Maxim 441.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”
“You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.”
Source: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter I, Money, p. 5
“It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.”
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)
