Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
Precaution is better than cure.
There is no patriotic art.
The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.
No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.
Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!
A joy shared is a joy doubled.
A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.
Life is too short to drink bad wine.
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
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