When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.
In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.
Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.
You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.
Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.
This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones.
If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.
A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.
No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.
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