The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.
A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.
The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.
The spirit from which we act is the principal matter.
Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.
Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.
So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.
Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.
Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.
Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.
A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.
Mastery is often taken for egotism.
From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.
For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.
Power is neither male nor female.
He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.
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