Hydra, Greece - 20071. “A clever man commits no minor blunders.”
2. "A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next."
3. “All our knowledge is symbolic.”
4. “All rights and laws are still transmitted,
Like an eternal sickness to the race.”
5. "All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again."
6. “All that is transitory is only an image.”
7. ”All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”
8. “All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.”
9. “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
10. “A man's errors are what make him amiable.”
11. “A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.”
12. “A man that all the world hates, there must be something about him.”
13. “And until you have grasped this: `Die and be transformed!' you will be nothing but a sombre guest on the sorry earth.”
14. “Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.”
15. "As if whipped by invisible spirits, the sun steeds of time run away with the light chariot of our destiny, and nothing remains to us but to hold onto the reins with calm courage, steering the wheels, now right, now left, from the stone here and the abyss there. Where it goes---who knows? One hardly remembers from where one came."
16. “As all Nature's thousands changes
But one changeless God proclaim;
So in Art's wide kingdom ranges
One sole meaning still the same:
This is Truth, eternal Reason,
Which from Beauty takes its dress,
And serene through time and season
Stands aye in loveliness.”
17. “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
18. “A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.”
19. “A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured.”
20. "Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge."
21. ”Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.”
22. “Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.”
23. “But when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of our ruts. We had put down our passage money--booked a sailing to Bombay. This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence. Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.”
24. ”Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.”
25. “Character develops itself in the stream of life.”
26. “Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.”
27. “Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.”
28. “Culture which smooth the whole world licks,
Also unto the devil sticks.”
29. “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
30. ”Doubt grows with knowledge.”
31. “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
32. “Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.”
33. “Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.”
34. ”Everybody wants to get old, but nobody wants to be old.”
35. "Every form correctly seen is beautiful"
36. “Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.”
37. “Every situation -- nay, every moment -- is of infinite worth, for it is the representative of a whole eternity.”
38. "Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame."
39. “Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.”
40. "Few people have the imagination for reality."
41. “First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.”
42. “For all guilt is punished on earth.”
43. ”For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.”
44. “For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.”
45. “Girls we love for what they are;
Young men for what they promise to be.”
46. ”Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.”
47. “Gray are all the theories;
Green is the Tree of Life.”
48. ”Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
49. ”He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”
50. ”He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.”
51. "He who is firm in will molds the world to himself."
52. ”He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.”
53. ”He who seizes the right moment, is the right man.”
54. “How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.”
55. "How marvelous, wide and broad is my inheritance!
Time is my property, my estate is time."
56. ”I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and that its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but is has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.”
57. ”I am not omniscient, but much is known to me.”
58. “I call architecture frozen music.”
59. ”I can promise to be frank, I cannot promise to be impartial.”
60. “I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.”
61. ”I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.”
62. “If any many wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style,
let him first possess a noble soul.”
63. “If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.”
64. “If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.”
65. "If I love you, what business is it of yours?"
66. "If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat."
67. “If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.”
68. ”If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.”
69. “If you treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
70. "I love those who yearn for the impossible."
71. ”In art the best is good enough.”
72. “In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world, all rests on perseverance.”
73. “I pity men who occupy themselves exclusively with the transitory in things and lose themselves in the study of what is perishable, since we are here for this very end that we may make the perishable imperishable, which we can do only after we have learned how to approach both.”
74. “I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.”
75. ”Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?”
76. "It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it."
77. ”It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”
78. “It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.”
79. ”It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.”
80. “It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one carry in himself the proof of immortality, and quite spontaneously.”
81. “I, too, was born in Arcadia.”
82. “I've studied now Philosophy
And Jurisprudence, Medicine
And even, alas, Theology
From end to end with labor keen;
And here, poor fool; with all my lore
I stand no wiser than before.”
83. “Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.”
84. “Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom,
Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom,
Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows,
And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!”
85. ”"Know thyself?" If I knew myself, I'd run away.”
86. “Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.”
87. “Live dangerously and you live right.”
88. “Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.”
89. “Love concedes in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil.”
90. “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
91. “Love grants in a moment
What toil can hardly achieve in an age.”
92. "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."
93. “Man errs so long as he strives.”
94. “Man...knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.”
95. ”Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is just two times two, and that is what we call four for short. But four is nothing new at all. And thus it goes on and on in its conclusions, except that in the higher formulas the identity fades out of sight.”
96. ”Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own laguage, and forthwith it is something entirely different.”
97. ”Mehr Licht! - More light!”
98. ”Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.”
99. “Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.”
100. “My greatest wealth is the deep stillness in which I strive and grow and win what the world cannot take from me with fire or sword.”
101. “Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.”
102. ”Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.”
103. ”None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
104. “No, no! The devil is an egotist,
And is not apt, without why or wherefore,
"For God's sake," others to assist.”
105. “No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.”
106. "Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action ."
107. “Nothing is more harmful to a new truth than an old error.”
108. “Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants.”
109. “Nothing is worth more than this day.”
110. ”Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!”
111. ”One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.”
112. ”One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a human.”
113. “One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”
114. “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
115. “Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease.”
116. ”People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.”
117. “Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.”
118. “Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die.
Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.”
119. “Since time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.”
120. “Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.”
121. “Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.”
122. “Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light.”
123. “Superstition is the poetry of life.”
124. “Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.”
125. ”Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.”
126. ”Tell it only to the wise,
For the crowd at once will jeer:
That which is alive I praise,
That which longs for death by fire.
Cooled by passionate love at night,
Procreated, procreating,
You have known the alien feeling
In the calm of candlelight;
Gloom - embraced will lie no more,
By the flickering shades obscured,
But are seized by new desire,
To a higher union lured.
Then no distance holds you fast;
Winged, enchanted, on you fly,
Light your longing, and at last,
Moth, you meet the flame and die.
Never prompted to that quest:
Die and dare rebirth!
You remain a dreary guest
On our gloomy Earth.”
127. “Tell me, eyes, what 'tis ye're seeking;
For ye're saying something sweet,
Fit the ravish'd ear to greet.
Eloquently, softly speaking.”
128. “The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.”
129. “That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee,
earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.”
130. “The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.”
131. ”The deed is all, the glory nothing.”
132. “The eternal in woman draws us on.”
133. “The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.”
134. “The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.”
135. “The highest problem in every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality.”
136. “The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.”
137. “There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.”
138. “There I am, a poor fool, and am no wiser than I was before.”
139. ”There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.”
140. “There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste.”
141. “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
142. ”There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”
143. ”There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.”
144. ”The solution of every problem is another problem.”
145. “The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.”
146. “The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
147. ”The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.”
148. ”The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.”
149. “The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”
150. ”The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.”
151. ”The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.”
152. “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
153. “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
154. “Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
155. "This is the true measure of love, / When we believe that we alone can love, / That no one could ever have loved so before us, / And that no one will ever love in the same way after us."
156. “Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.”
157. “To a valet no man is a hero.”
158. ”To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.”
159. "To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed ~ That can make life a garden."
160. ”Tolerance comes with age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.”
161. “To rule is easy, to govern difficult.”
162. “To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.”
163. “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be.”
164. “Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills, countless ideas and endless plans: That the moment one definitely commits oneself then providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it! Boldness had genius, power, and magic in it.”
165. “We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.”
166. “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
167. “We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them!”
168. ”We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.”
169. ”We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.”
170. “We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
171. “We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.”
172. “We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.”
173. “We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.”
174. ”We really only know, when we don't know; with knowledge, doubt increases.”
175. “We see only what we know.”
176. “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness had genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now.”
177. “What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.”
178. ”What we do not understand we do not possess.”
179. “When ideas fail, words come in very handy.”
180. “Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.”
181. “Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.”
182. “What is uttered from the heart alone
Will win the hearts of others to your own.”
183. “What we do not understand we do not possess.”
184. “Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.”
185. ”Which government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.”
186. “While man's desires and aspirations stir,
He can not choose but err.”
187. ”Who thinks little of himself, is often more than he thinks.”
188. “Words are good, but there is something better, The best is not to be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be understood and represented by the spirit. No one knows what he is doing while he is acting rightly, but of what is wrong we are always conscious.”
189. ”You have to ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”
190. “You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.”
191. “Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given;
The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.”
