Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.
A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.
You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others.
The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks.
I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.
We are our own aptest deceiver.
Still this planet’s soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.
Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.
Mastery is often taken for egotism.
From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.