Live and let live.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
A scholar must be strong and resolute, for his burden is heavy, and his journey is long.
But, always ignorant of our own needs, We ask the heavens for what we need the least.
The mind is often at the heart that what the library of a castle is to the master's person.
Let a child play and mix instruction with play.
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Happy the man who observes the heavenly and the terrestrial law in just proportion.
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times.
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied:
To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Nothing proceeds from itself. Nothing is given. All is constructed.
Obscurity is the realm of error.
It is pleasant to think of labours that are past.
Of the experience I have of myself, I find enough to make me wise, if I were but a good scholar.
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.
Reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls.
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
I have ever held it as a maxim, never to do that through another, which it was possible for me to execute myself.
If a man spreads my failings abroad, he is my master, even though he were my servant.
For if I am deceived, I am.
To prepare teachers in the method of the experimental sciences is not an easy matter.
The assaults of adversity do not weaken the spirit of a brave man. It always maintains its poise, and it gives its own colour to everything that happens.
To have suffered oneself makes one much more understanding of others' suffering.
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