Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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Man is by nature a political animal.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
A good historian is timeless although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
My work is a game, a very serious game.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
Language is the house of the truth of Being.
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Architecture in general is frozen music.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
To love beauty is to see light.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
The mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
They succeed, because they think they can.
By the work one knows the workman.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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