Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Love can do much, but duty more.
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
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