Every form correctly seen is beautiful.
We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.
Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
Method will teach you to win time.
Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.
The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.
The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.
The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.
The question “From where does the poet get it?” addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.
War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.
The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn’t help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.
Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.