The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.
Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.
How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!
A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.
It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe
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.
The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
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.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
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?]
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.]
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.
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
To have more, you must first be more.
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
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