He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.
The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.
Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every Now, being begins; round every Here rolls the sphere There. The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity.
Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.
One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.
Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.
You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.
I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.
If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.
We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.
I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along.
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