Around the hero, everything becomes a tragedy.Around God, everything becomes what? a world?
A thought comes when it will, not when I will.
Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Success has always been a great liar.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.
I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.
The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
There are no eternal facts as there are no absolute truths.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will"...
The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to.
The slow arrow of beauty. The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating (this kind easily awakens disgust), but rather the...
In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain o...