The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.
It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.
You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.
No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hope of new pleasure, is it worthwhile to dress and undress?
I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
A mind, once formed, is never suited after, One yet in growth will ever grateful be. [Ger., Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen, Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.]
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.
How shall we plan, that all be fresh and new-- Important matter yet attractive too? [Ger., Wie machen wir's, dass alles frisch und neu Und mit Bedeutung auch gefallig sei?]
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.
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