No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Forgotten is forgiven.
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
Hope is a waking dream.
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful, may be called intelligent indeed.
If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs cannot be carried on to success, proprieties and music will not flourish. When proprieties and music do not flourish, punishments will not be properly awarded. When punishments are not properly awarded, the people do not know how to move hand or foot.
It is better to examine one's own faults than those of others.
Courage minimises difficulties.
But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world...
It is the mark of the divine intellect to be always calculating something noble.
Be not suspicious towards all, but be cautious and firm.
So as the old rule, to know a fool from a wise man 'Mitte ambos nudos ad ignotos, et videbis'.
Although logos is common to all, most people live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
If a lion could talk, we would not understand him.
© Hans Jürgen Heringer
This is how philosophers should greet each other: 'Take your time!'
Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.
Today, we are truly a global family. What happens in one part of the world may affect us all. This, of course, is not only true of the negative things that happen, but is equally valid for the positive developments.
Men depend on fame and honor to the exact extent that they are not sure of having succeeded.
Oh, how I am tired of the struggle!
A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that, you need long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken, big and tall.
In conversation one ought to follow closely what is being said; in the field of impulse to follow what is happening; in the latter case to see immediately what is the object of reference, in the former to mark closely the meaning expressed.
To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
Out of my Will to Health and to Life I made my philosophy.
However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.
Light cares speak out, the weighty have no words.
Cold things warm up, the hot cools off, wet becomes dry, dry becomes wet.
The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.
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© Hans Jürgen Heringer
