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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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She sought her happiness exclusively in the happiness of others. Death gave her her own.
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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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In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.
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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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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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Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.
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