The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness.
The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.
Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.
Please do not understand me too quickly.
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
The world will be saved by one or two people.
I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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