The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
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.
If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side.
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!
Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine
The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.
Few people have the imagination for reality.
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