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To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.
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To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.
To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower on the scale.
It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter: to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way.
Grow into your ideals, so that life can never rob you of them.
The African is my brother -- but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.