It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.
That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
A joy shared is a joy doubled.
A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.
Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!
If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.
The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.
The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.
A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.
Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.
Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.
We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.
A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.
Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.
The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe
When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
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