Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold.
It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.
there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?
That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.
We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.
The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand, just as a magnetic somnambulist gives information about things of which she has no conception when she is awake. Therefore in the composer, more than in any other artist, the man is entirely separate and distinct from the artist.
Alle Befriedigung, oder was man gemeinhin Glu« ck nennt, ist eigentlich und wesentlich immer nur negativ und durchaus nie positiv. All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.
In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.
alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.
Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.
A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.
I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.
There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.
Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we compare it to - better and we envious and sad, worse and we feel grateful and happy.
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.
The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.
Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into
Music is the melody whose text is the world.
One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.
A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.
It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.
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