Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears.
The right-minded man is he who is not grieved by what he has not, but enjoys what he has.
Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
The greatest skill in any deed consists in the sure mastery with which it is executed.
A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it.
Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings.
Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.
I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license. Thus his words have respect to his actions, and his actions have respect to his words; is it not just an entire sincerity which marks the superior man?
The infinite and the eternal are the only certainty.
Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
What happens when one of our actions ceases to be spontaneous and becomes automatic ? Consciousness departs from it.
All things move onward to their term.
What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.
The harmony is generally the result of contraries; for it is the unity of multiplicity, and the agreement of discordances.
Life is a festival only to the wise.
When it is not possible to see what ought to be done, suspend your judgement and use the best men to advise you.
One should emulate the deeds and actions of virtue, not the words.
Happiness is a good flow of life.
I cannot live, experience, think, value, and act in any world which is not in some sense in me, and derives its meaning and truth from me.
Keep looking straight forward to the goal to which Nature is leading you, Universal Nature through what befalls you, and your own nature by what has to be done by yourself.
The end crowns the work.
The subject is of secondary importance to me; I want to represent what lives between the object and me.
If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
There are people that can believe everything they want. These are happy creatures.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
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