Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.
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Vi som mötas några korta stunder, barn av samma jord och samma under. på vår levnads stormomflutna näs! Skulle kärlekslöst vi gå och kalla? Samma ensamhet oss väntar alla, samma sorgens sus på gravens gräs.
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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
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Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose
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Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
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On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von Falkenhayn, We must not worry about committing an offence against the rights of nations nor about violating the laws of humanity. Such feelings today are of secondary importance? A month later, on October 21, 1914, he wrote in Der Tag, If a way was found of entirely wiping out the whole of London it would be more humane to employ it than to allow the blood of A SINGLE GERMAN SOLDIER to be shed on the battlefield!
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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.
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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yieldAgainst stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,Resplendent daughter of the head divine,Wise foundress of the system of the world,Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.
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Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.
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You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never to learn the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,And one is striving to forsake its brother.
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I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
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If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick
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The world remains ever the same.
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If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
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The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
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The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
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Live dangerously and you live right.
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Whenever I hear people talking about 'liberal ideas,' I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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