The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. Votes: 16
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion. Votes: 15
A useless life is an early death. Votes: 13
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest. Votes: 10
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. Votes: 9
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own. Votes: 8
Doubt grows with knowledge. Votes: 7
An unused life is an early death. Votes: 7
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. Votes: 0
In art the best is good enough. Votes: 0
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. Votes: 0
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality. Votes: 0
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. Votes: 0
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture. Votes: 0
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting. Votes: 0
One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand. Votes: 0
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer. Votes: 0
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. Votes: 0
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness. Votes: 0
You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days. Votes: 0
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Votes: 0
Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. Votes: 0
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. Votes: 0
The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home. Votes: 0
The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else. Votes: 0
Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred. Votes: 0
Doubt can only be removed by action. Votes: 0
Mastery passes often for egotism. Votes: 0
Willing is not enough, we must do. Votes: 0
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables. Votes: 0
Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good. Votes: 0
The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range. Votes: 0
I call architecture frozen music. Votes: 0
Collectors are happy people. Votes: 0
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us. Votes: 0
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. Votes: 0
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light. Votes: 0
By seeking and blundering we learn. Votes: 0
Life is too short to drink bad wine. Votes: 0
It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better. Votes: 0
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. Votes: 0
We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings. Votes: 0
Precaution is better than cure. Votes: 0
The world remains ever the same. Votes: 0
Patriotism ruins history. Votes: 0
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. Votes: 0
All things are only transitory. Votes: 0
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at. Votes: 0
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. Votes: 0
A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself. Votes: 0
The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become. Votes: 0
Colors are light's suffering and joy Votes: 0
Nature has neither kernel Nor shell Votes: 0
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. Votes: 0
Superstition is the poetry of life. Votes: 0
The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure. Votes: 0
Wisdom is found only in truth. Votes: 0
To a valet no man is a hero. Votes: 0
On all the peaks lies peace. Votes: 0
A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.] Votes: 0
I am what I am, so take me as I am!. Votes: 0
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. Votes: 0
The little man is still a man. Votes: 0
Live dangerously and you live right. Votes: 0
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes. Votes: 0
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. Votes: 0
The unnatural, that too is natural. Votes: 0
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. Votes: 0
Everything is hard before it is easy Votes: 0
A joy shared is a joy doubled. Votes: 0
Beware of a man of one book. Votes: 0
Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals. Votes: 0
He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life. Votes: 0
Stupidity is without anxiety. Votes: 0
Patriotism corrupts history. Votes: 0
Sceptics are yet the most credulous. Votes: 0
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves. Votes: 0
Create, artist, do not talk. Votes: 0
In art, the best is good enough. Votes: 0
The aim of living is life itself. Votes: 0
We are our own aptest deceiver. Votes: 0
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects. Votes: 0
True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.] Votes: 0
Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained. Votes: 0
He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something. Votes: 0
Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes. Votes: 0
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness. Votes: 0
Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends. Votes: 0
It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are. Votes: 0
Unrest and uncertainty are our lot. Votes: 0
Originality provokes originality. Votes: 0
Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.] Votes: 0
The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology. Votes: 0
We must be young to do great things. Votes: 0
Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything. Votes: 0
Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism. Votes: 0
Method will teach you to win time. Votes: 0
All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language. Votes: 0
Character calls forth character. Votes: 0
I will be lord over myself. Votes: 0
Nothing is worth more than this day. Votes: 0
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story. Votes: 0
Every second is of infinite value. Votes: 0
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations. Votes: 0
It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them. Votes: 0
We see only what we know. Votes: 0
I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity. Votes: 0
Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees. Votes: 0
It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant. Votes: 0
The eternal female draws us onward. Votes: 0
A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time Votes: 0
Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth. Votes: 0
Love can do much, but duty more. Votes: 0
We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for. Votes: 0
I wait for the morning of my tears Votes: 0
I laugh at my heart, and do its will Votes: 0
Do not hurry; do not rest. Votes: 0
When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching. Votes: 0
Sing it not in mournful numbers. Votes: 0
Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. Votes: 0
Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast. Votes: 0
Every offense is avenged on earth. Votes: 0
Only law can give us freedom. Votes: 0
One lives but once in the world. Votes: 0
Man errs as long as he strives. Votes: 0
Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude. Votes: 0
When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken. Votes: 0
Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope. Votes: 0
The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources Votes: 0
The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care. Votes: 0
Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap. Votes: 0
One must keep repeating the Truth. Votes: 0
Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it Votes: 0
On every mountain height is rest. Votes: 0
With knowledge grows doubt. Votes: 0
The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master. Votes: 0
How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it! Votes: 0
Blood is a very special juice. Votes: 0
Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society. Votes: 0
Wisdom is only found in truth. Votes: 0
Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another. Votes: 0
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous. Votes: 0
Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson. Votes: 0
To act is easy; to think is hard. Votes: 0
All understanding begins in wonder! Votes: 0
Only the soul that loves is happy Votes: 0
Mystery is truth's dancing partner. Votes: 0
Our earthly ball a peopled garden. Votes: 0
What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours. Votes: 0
Noble be man, helpful and good! Votes: 0
Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition. Votes: 0
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth. Votes: 0
Gray is the color of all theory Votes: 0
Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love. Votes: 0
Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey. Votes: 0
Let there be truth between us. Votes: 0
One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it. Votes: 0
All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless. Votes: 0
We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like. Votes: 0
The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. Votes: 0
A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath. Votes: 0
The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks Votes: 0
Mastery is often taken for egotism. Votes: 0
Power is neither male nor female. Votes: 0
He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it. Votes: 0
I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him. Votes: 0
I am the Spirit that denies. Votes: 0
Art will always be art. Votes: 0
Every beginning is cheerful. Votes: 0
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful. Votes: 0
Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours. Votes: 0
There is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again. Votes: 0
All our knowledge is symbolic. Votes: 0
All perishable is but an allegory. Votes: 0
In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for. Votes: 0
Duty is the demand of the hour. Votes: 0
He who is resolute conquers grief. Votes: 0
The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence. Votes: 0
Miracle is the pet child of faith. Votes: 0
Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.] Votes: 0
He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion. Votes: 0
Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting. Votes: 0
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.] Votes: 0
The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.] Votes: 0
Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license. Votes: 0
With knowledge comes more doubt. Votes: 0
Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about. Votes: 0
Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought. Votes: 0
The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it. Votes: 0
Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united. Votes: 0
The eternal feminine draws us up. Votes: 0
If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth. Votes: 0
For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil. Votes: 0
The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom. Votes: 0
The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person. Votes: 0
Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive. Votes: 0
Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head. Votes: 0
Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education. Votes: 0
One errs as long as one strives. Votes: 0
One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made. Votes: 0
It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress. Votes: 0
Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father. Votes: 0
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. Votes: 0
Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving. Votes: 0
Architecture is crystallized music. Votes: 0
Faith is hidden household capital. Votes: 0
Let us live, while we are alive! Votes: 0
Life's objective is life itself. Votes: 0
Time itself is an element. Votes: 0
Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir. Votes: 0
Over all the mountain tops is peace. Votes: 0
What is fruitful alone is true. Votes: 0
Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own. Votes: 0
There is no patriotic art. Votes: 0
Writing is busy idleness. Votes: 0
The world is full of contradiction. Votes: 0
We're only really thinking when we can't think out fully what we are really thinking about! Votes: 0
Giving is the business of the rich. Votes: 0
Man's restlessness makes him strive. Votes: 0