The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
The threshold is the place of expectation.
Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.
If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
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.
Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.
Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.
Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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?
The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.
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