Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.
The true nature of all wealth is temporary; those who have wealth must here and now do good deeds that will live for a long time.
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
We can find Nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. This marks out our path of enquiry.
A philosophy of freedom must set out from the experience of thinking, for it is through this experience of thinking that a human being discovers his own self, finds his bearings as an independent personality.
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life.
It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.
One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.
To the Master’s honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton’s ground.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
You need to realise that you must have something to aim for, something to drive you.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.
Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.
We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‘Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?’ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
Energy can’t be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.
If we must die, we die defending our rights.
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
Every time you think of a city, you have to think green, green, green. Every time you see concrete jungle, you must find open spaces. And when you find open spaces, make it so people can get to them.
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory… of how we are taking responsibility.
With foxes we must play the fox.
If the ride is more fly, then you must buy.
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I’ll show you a loser, show me a hero and I’ll show you a corpse.
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes’; They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes.’
I learned that public service is a privilege that must be based on moral foundations.
To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.
This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
