Our senses don’t deceive us: our judgment does

One man’s word is no man’s word; we should quietly hear both sides

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Individuality seems to be Nature’s whole aim — and she cares nothing for individuals.

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never to learn the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,And one is striving to forsake its brother.

I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it

The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.

People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

The eternal in woman draws us on.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

Everybody wants to get old, but nobody wants to be old

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

A useless life is an early death.

„Bin weder Fräulein, weder schön,kann ungeleitet nach Hause gehn.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.

What you feed in yourself that grows.

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don’t understand; no wonder they come to grief.

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one’s ego except by love

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

To see I was born, To look is my call, To the tower sworn, I delight in all. I glance out far, And see what is near… You blessed eyes, What you saw everywhere,

We can really respect a man only if he doesn’t always look out for himself

He who cannot love must learn to flatter

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently...

Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Röslein, Röslein, Röslein rot,Röslein auf der Heiden.Und der wilde Knabe brach’sRöslein auf der Heiden;Röslein wehrte sich und stach,half ihm doch kein Weh und Ach,musst’ es eben leiden.Röslein, Röslein, Röslein rot,Röslein auf der Heiden.

If you would create something,you must be something.

Even people who are entirely strange and indifferent to one another will exchange confidences if they live together for a while, and a certain intimacy is bound to develop.

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

Exageras tudo e, por certo, cometes pelo menos o erro de aceitar o suicídio, que é do que estamos falando agora, como se fosse uma grande ação, quando não é nada mais do que simplesmente...

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins...

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Who never ate his bread in sorrow, who never sat the sorrowful nights weeping on his bed, he knows you not, you heavenly Powers.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous… rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.