309 Quotes About Carpe-diem

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.

So act that anything you do may become universal law.

Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century Florence. Goethe stands serenely above the politics of Germany, and I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over cities, we too will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.