Belief in form but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all...
We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.
In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering.
Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood
The lie is a condition of life.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Forgetfulness is a property of all action. The man of action is also without knowledge: he forgets most things in order to do one, he is unjust to what is behind him, and only recognizes one law - the...
That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.
Every word is a prejudice.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.
Only sick music makes money today.
Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once I