In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
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.
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
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.
The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine
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.
The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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.]
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?]
So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.
Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
Only law can give us freedom.
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.
What then is your duty? What the day demands.
All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one up to now has measured up to and, strictly considered, no one should. With all their study and effort, people are directed to what is outside, to the world about them, and they are kept busy coming to know this and to master it to the extent that their purposes require. . . . How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. And what is your duty? Whatever the day calls for.
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.
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