Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.
Willing is not enough, we must do.
But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away, held fast by some power that seems incomprehensible to us. Sometimes, however, we become fully aware and realize that error as well as truth can move and spur us on to action.
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
By seeking and blundering we learn.
If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.
The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.
It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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.
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