Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin impatience. Because of impatience we are driven out of Paradise because of impatience we cannot return.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore. Looking at fish in aquarium
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Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
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There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.
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It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already b...
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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man rem...
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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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She sought her happiness exclusively in the happiness of others. Death gave her her own.
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The man in ecstasy and the man drowning—both throw up their arms. The first does it to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with th...
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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connois...
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I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its co...
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers pr...
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Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful tone is silenced.
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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
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A cage went in search of a bird.
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Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.
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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Cons...
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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy
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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discards it with indi...
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