The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer but rather what they miss.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew.
Every noble crown is and on Earth will forever be a crown of thorns.
Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought.
Hero-worship exists has existed and will forever exist universally among mankind.
Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further.
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
Of all the paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path ... a thing which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do ... to find this path and walk in it...
Who is there that in logical words can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into t...
One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.
The greatest of faults I should say is to be conscious of none.
Biography is the only true history.
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.