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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so
To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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