Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.
Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.
That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.
Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.
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.
If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.
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!
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.
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