The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
A new fundamental science, pure phenomenology, has developed within philosophy: This is a science of a thoroughly new type and endless scope. It is inferior in methodological rigor to none of the modern sciences. All philosophical disciplines are rooted in pure phenomenology, through whose development, and through it alone, they obtain their proper force.
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.
In misfortune we usually regain the peace that we were robbed of through fear of that very misfortune.
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.
Intelligence is a moral category.
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
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