The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
Life must be lived as play.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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