If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.
Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.
Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.
I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.
A mind, once formed, is never suited after, One yet in growth will ever grateful be. [Ger., Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen, Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.]
Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hope of new pleasure, is it worthwhile to dress and undress?
Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.
How shall we plan, that all be fresh and new-- Important matter yet attractive too? [Ger., Wie machen wir's, dass alles frisch und neu Und mit Bedeutung auch gefallig sei?]
True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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