“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”
Art“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”
Alone“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”
Art“There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.”
Age“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”
Alone“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.”
Knowledge“Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.”
Death“With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.”
Great“Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.”
History“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.”
Truth“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.”
Freedom“Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
Intelligence“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”
Knowledge“Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.”
Anger“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
Truth“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”
Death“Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.”
Happiness“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.”
Sympathy“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.”
Men“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”
Death“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
Nature“It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.”
Truth