In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.
The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.
Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.
There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.
True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of splitting the united or uniting the divided; this is the eternal movement of systole and diastole of the heartbeat, the inhalation and exhalation of the world in which we live, act, and exist.
So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born
Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
Doubt grows with knowledge.
If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.
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