In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.
The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.
Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.
True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of splitting the united or uniting the divided; this is the eternal movement of systole and diastole of the heartbeat, the inhalation and exhalation of the world in which we live, act, and exist.
Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born
I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.
Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
Doubt grows with knowledge.
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
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