Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Man is by nature a political animal.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
A good historian is timeless although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
My work is a game, a very serious game.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
Language is the house of the truth of Being.
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Architecture in general is frozen music.
To love beauty is to see light.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
They succeed, because they think they can.
By the work one knows the workman.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
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