Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
I’ve often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.
Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.
Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.
I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.
For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people’s behavior.
Just trust yourself and you’ll learn the art of living.
How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?
And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.
We’re only really thinking when we can’t think out fully what we are really thinking about!
Colors are light’s suffering and joy.
If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.
What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?
Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.
But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we’ve crucified and burned.
It’s true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.