Skill to do comes of doing; knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.
It is through their completeness that souls are happy.
All concepts, even those which are closest to experience, are from the point of view of logic freely chosen conventions.
Bad men, when they escape, do not keep the oaths which they make in time of stress.
We have to watch out for the traps of words.
All men are not capable of great things, but all are sensitive to great things.
There is a higher court than courts of justice, and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.
O Lord, that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!
When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.
The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.
The life without festival is a long road without an inn.
The earth teaches us more about ourselves than all the books in the world, because it is resistant to us. Self-discovery comes when man measures himself against an obstacle.
Philosophy is true mother of the arts.
Now do you think one can acquire any appreciable knowledge of the nature of the soul without knowing the nature of the whole?
Who knows? How odd and fickle is life ! How little is needed to ruin or rescue us !
We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
The present alone is true and real: it is time as it is really fulfilled and our existence lies exclusively in it.
Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
As we get older, we realise that the rarest courage is that of thinking.
For what is life but a play in which everyone acts a part until the curtain comes down?
All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose.
What the inner voice says Will not disappoint the hoping soul.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
The poet consecrates himself to and consumes himself in the task of defining and constructing a language within the language.
For the paths of night and day are near to each other.
My way of joking is telling the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
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