Whatever makes for cultural development is working also against war.
How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action.
Poesy dissolves foreign being into our own.
Philosophy is the microscope of thought.
Eternity is like a wheel, which has neither beginning nor end.
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
Everything mystical is personal — accordingly it is an elementary variation of the universe.
The people should fight for their law as for their city wall.
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
The heart is the key of the world and of life.
Every human being should be an artist. Everything can become beautiful art.
As the sun is the light of the day, so the soul is the light of the awakened body. As the moon is the light of the night, so is the soul the light of the sleeping body.
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace.
Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.
Abundance makes me poor.
Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent.
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted.
But in the loneliest desert the second metamorphosis occurs: the spirit here becomes a lion; it wants to capture freedom and be lord in its own desert.
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When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.
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