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Everything Perfect In Its Kind Has To Transcend Its Own Kind, It Must Become Something Different And Incomparable. In Some Notes The Nightingale Is Still A Bird; Then It Rises Above Its Class And Seems To Suggest To Every Winged Creature What Singing Is Truly Like.

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Everything Perfect In Its

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Everything Perfect In Its Kind Has To Transcend Its Own Kind, It Must Become Something Different And Incomparable. In Some Notes The Nightingale Is Still A Bird; Then It Rises Above Its Class And Seems To Suggest To Every Winged Creature What Singing Is Truly Like.

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We Are Surrounded By Abysses, But The Greatest Of All Depths Is In Our Own Heart, And An Irresistible Leaning Leads Us There. Draw Thyself From Thyself!

By Nature We Have No Defect That Could Not Become A Strength, No Strength That Could Not Become A Defect.

The Highest Happiness Of Man ... Is To Have Probed What Is Knowable And Quietly To Revere What Is Unknowable.

Time Flies, And What Is Past Is Done.

What Reason Would Grope For In Vain, Spontaneous Impulse Ofttimes Achieves At A Stroke, With Light And Pleasureful Guidance.

Don't Judge Anyone Harshly Until You Yourself Have Been Through His Experiences

The Public Wishes Itself To Be Managed Like A Woman; One Must Say Nothing To It Except What It Likes To Hear.

He Is A Man Whom It Is Impossible To Please, Because He Is Never Pleased With Himself.

To Be Pleased With One's Limits Is A Wretched State.

Knowing Who You Are

The Best Fortune That Can Fall To A Man Is That Which Corrects His Defects And Makes Up For His Failings.

Life Seems So Vulgar, So Easily Content With The Commonplace Things Of Every Day, And Yet It Always Nurses And Cherishes Certain Higher Claims In Secret, And Looks About For The Means Of Satisfying Them.

If You Wish To Know The Mind Of A Man, Listen To His Words.

Sound And Sufficient Reason Falls, After All, To The Share Of But Few Men, And Those Few Men Exert Their Influence In Silence.

I Have Often Reaped What Others Have Sowed. My Work Is The Work Of A Collective Being That Bears The Name Goethe.

Distance... Is Like Futurity. A Dim Vastness Is Spread Before Our Souls; The Perceptions Of Our Mind Are As Obscure As Those Of Our Vision... But Alas! When We Have Attained Our Object, When The Distant 'there' Becomes The Present 'here,' All Is Changed; We Are As Poor And Circumscribed As Ever, And Our Souls Still Languish For Unattainable Happiness.

Thinking Is Easy, Acting Is Difficult, And To Put One's Thoughts Into Action Is The Most Difficult Thing In The World.

A Purpose You Impart Is No Longer Your Own.

Piety Is Not A Goal But A Means To Attain Through The Purest Peace Of Mind The Highest Culture.

What Makes Poetry? A Full Heart, Brimful Of One Noble Passion.

Method Will Teach You To Win Time.

We Find From Experience That Yellow Excites A Warm And Agreeable Impression.... The Eye Is Gladdened, The Heart Expanded And Cheered, A Glow Seems At Once To Breathe Toward Us.

Nothing Will Change The Fact That I Cannot Produce The Least Thing Without Absolute Solitude.

There Is No Patriotic Art And No Patriotic Science.

The World Is So Great And Rich, And Life So Full Of Variety, That You Can Never Lack Occasions For Poems.

A Correct Answer Is Like An Affectionate Kiss.

Slap In The Face

Behavior Is The Mirror In Which Everyone Shows Their Image.

And Here, Poor Fool, With All My Lore I Stand No Wiser Than Before.

The Present Moment Is A Powerful Goddess.

It Is With Art As With Love: How Can A Man Of The World,with All His Distractions, Keep The Inwardness Which An Artist Must Possess If He Hopes To Attain Perfection? That Inwardness Which The Spectator Must Share If He Is To Understand The Work As The Artist Wishes And Hopes... Believe Me, Talents Are Like Virtues; Either You Must Love Them For Their Own Sake Or Renounce Them Altogether. And They Are Only Recognized And Rewarded When We Have Practised Them In Secret, Like A Dangerous Mystery."

Hatred Is Partial, But Love Is Still More So.

Nothing Shows A Man's Character More Than What He Laughs At.

Moral Epochs Have Their Course As Well As The Seasons. We Can No More Hold Them Fast Than We Can Hold Sun, Moon, And Stars. Our Faults Perpetually Return Upon Us; And Herein Lies The Subtlest Difficulty Of Self-knowledge.

So Then The Year Is Repeating Its Old Story Again. We Are Come Once More, Thank God! To Its Most Charming Chapter. The Violets And The Mayflowers Are As Its Inscriptions Or Vignettes. It Always Makes A Pleasant Impression On Us, When We Open Again At These Pages Of The Book Of Life.

Man's Restlessness Makes Him Strive.

Mathematicians Are Like Frenchmen: Whatever You Say To Them They Translate Into Their Own Language And Forthwith It Is Something Entirely Different.

It Matters Little Whether A Man Be Mathematically Or Philologically Or Artistically Cultivated, So He Be But Cultivated.

Women Are Silver Dishes Into Which We Put Golden Apples.

Many Young Painters Would Never Have Taken Their Pencils In Hand If They Could Have Felt, Known, And Understood, Early Enough, What Really Produced A Master Like Raphael.

The Most Original Of Authors Are Not So Because They Advance What Is New, But More Because They Know How To Say Something, As If It Had Never Been Said Before.

The Assault Of Our Enemies Is Not Part Of Our Life; It Is Only Part Of Our Experience; We Throw It Off And Guard Ourselves Against It As Against Frost, Storm, Rain, Hail, Or Any Other Of The External Evils Which May Be Expected To Happen.

The Credit Of Advancing Science Has Always Been Due To Individuals And Never To The Age.

We Rather Confess Our Moral Errors, Faults, And Crimes Than Our Ignorance.

What Sort Of God Would It Be, Who Only Pushed From Without.

A Genuine Work Of Art Usually Displeases At First Sight, As It Suggests A Deficiency In The Spectator.

Nature Does Not Suffer Her Veil To Be Taken From Her, And What She Does Not Choose To Reveal To The Spirit, Thou Wilt Not Wrest From Her By Levers And Screws.

Faith Is Like Private Capital, Stored In One's Own House. It Is Like A Public Savings Bank Or Loan Office, From Which Individuals Receive Assistance In Their Days Of Need; But Here The Creditor Quietly Takes His Interest For Himself.

In The Realm Of Ideas Everything Depends On Enthusiasm... In The Real World All Rests On Perseverance.

The Older We Get The More We Must Limit Ourselves If We Wish To Be Active.

If You Inquire What People Are Like Here, I Must Answer, "the Same As Everywhere."

Names Are But Noise And Smoke, Obscuring Heavenly Light.

The Smallest Hair Throws Its Shadow. [ger., Das Kleinste Harr Wirft Seinen Schatten.]

What People Call The Spirit Of The Times Is Mostly Their Own Spirit In Which The Times Mirror Themselves.

I Am The Spirit That Negates. And Rightly So, For All That Comes To Be Deserves To Perish Wretchedly; 'twere Better Nothing Would Begin. Thus Everything That That Your Terms, Sin, Destruction, Evil Represent— That Is My Proper Element.

On All The Peaks Lies Peace.

Every Man Has Enough Power Left To Carry Out That Of Which He Is Convinced.

Nature! We Are Surrounded By Her And Locked In Her Clasp: Powerless To Leave Her, And Powerless To Come Closer To Her. Unasked And Unwarned She Takes Us Up Into The Whirl Of Her Dance, And Hurries On With Us Till We Are Weary And Fall From Her Arms.

True Religion Teaches Us To Reverence What Is Under Us, To Recognize Humility And Poverty, And, Despite Mockery And Disgrace, Wretchedness, Suffering, And Death, As Things Divine.

Suffering And Death

The Rogue Has Everywhere The Advantage.

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.

A Judge Who Cannot Punish, In The End Associates Themselves With The Criminal.

This World Could Not Exist If It Were Not So Simple. The Ground Has Been Tilled A Thousand Years, Yet Its Powers Remain Ever The Same; A Little Rain, A Little Sun, And Each Spring It Grows Green Again.

It Is Equally A Mistake To Hold One's Self Too High, Or To Rate One's Self Too Cheap.

It Is A Very Hard And Troublesome Thing To Dispose Of Whole, Half, And Quarter-mistakes; To Sift Them And Assign The Portion Of Truth To Its Proper Place.

The Greatest Difficulties Lie Where We Are Not Looking For Them.

Collectors Are Happy People.

The People Who Are Absent Are The Ideal; Those Who Are Present Seem To Be Quite Commonplace.

Love Has The Tendency Of Pressing Together All The Lights - All The Rays Emitted From The Beloved Object By The Burning-glass Of Fantasy, - Into One Focus, And Making Of Them One Radiant Sun Without Any Spots.

How Shall We Plan, That All Be Fresh And New-- Important Matter Yet Attractive Too? [ger., Wie Machen Wir's, Dass Alles Frisch Und Neu Und Mit Bedeutung Auch Gefallig Sei?]

No One Can Take From Us The Joy Of The First Becoming Aware Of Something, The So-called Discovery. But If We Also Demand The Honor, It Can Be Utterly Spoiled For Us, For We Are Usually Not The First. What Does Discovery Mean, And Who Can Say That He Has Discovered This Or That? After All It's Pure Idiocy To Brag About Priority; For It's Simply Unconscious Conceit, Not To Admit Frankly That One Is A Plagiarist.

Superstition Is The Poesy Of Practical Life; Hence, A Poet Is None The Worse For Being Superstitious.

To Have More, You Must First Be More.

The Thinking Person Has The Strange Characteristic To Like To Create A Fantasy In The Place Of The Unsolved Problem, A Fantasy That Stays With The Person Even When The Problem Has Been Solved And Truth Made Its Appearance.

How Marvelous, Wide And Broad Is My Inheritance! Time Is My Property, My Estate Is Time.

Each Traveler Should Know What He Has To See, And What Properly Belongs To Him, On A Journey.

When One Is Polite In German, One Lies.

After Fifteen Minutes Nobody Looks At A Rainbow.

A Plant Is Like A Self-willed Man, Out Of Whom We Can Obtain All Which We Desire, If We Will Only Treat Him His Own Way.

I Have Found A Paper Of Mine Among Some Others In Which I Call Architecture 'petrified Music.' Really There Is Something In This; The Tone Of Mind Produced By Architecture Approaches The Effect Of Music.

All Theory, My Friend, Is Grey, But Green Is Life's Glad Golden Tree.

The Solution Of Every Problem Is Another Problem

The Senses Do Not Deceive Us, But The Judgment Does.

I Bid The Chords Sweet Music Make, And All Must Follow In My Wake.

He Is The Happiest Man Who Can See The Connection Between The End And The Beginning Of Life.

Just Trust Yourself And You'll Learn The Art Of Living.

Of The Truly Creative No One Is Ever Master; It Must Be Left To Go Its Own Way.

All That Is Transitory Is But A Metaphor.

Everything That We Encounter Leaves Traces Behind. Everything Contributes Imperceptibly To Our Education

Were Not The Eye Made To Receive The Rays Of The Sun, It Could Not Behold The Sun; If The Peculiar Power Of God Lay Not In Us, How Could The Godlike Charm Us?

Happiness Is A Ball After Which We Run Wherever It Rolls, And We Push It With Our Feet When It Stops.

Whoever Aspiring, Struggles On, For Him There Is Salvation.

The Bed Of Flowers Loosens Amain, The Beauteous Snowdrops Droop O'er The Plain. The Crocus Opens Its Glowing Bud, Like Emeralds Others, Others, Like Blood. With Saucy Gesture Primroses Flare, And Roguish Violets, Hidden With Care; And Whatsoever There Stirs And Strives, The Spring's Contented, If Works And Thrives.

Choose Well. Your Choice Is Brief, And Yet Endless.

The Soul Of The Christian Religion Is Reverence.

The Few Of Understanding, Vision Rare, Who Veiled Not From The Herd Their Hearts, But Tried, Poor Generous Fools, To Lay Their Feelings Bare, Them Have Men Always Burnt And Crucified.

A Reasonable Man Needs Only To Practice Moderation To Find Happiness.

Go To The Place Where The Thing You Wish To Know Is Native; Your Best Teacher Is There. Where The Thing You Wish To Know Is So Dominant That You Must Breathe Its Very Atmosphere, There Teaching Is Moat Thorough, And Learning Is Most Easy. You Acquire A Language Most Readily In The Country Where It Is Spoken; You Study Mineralogy Boat Among Miners; And So With Everything Else.

Presents At Once? That's Good. He Is Sure To Succeed.

Without My Attempts In Natural Science, I Should Never Have Learned To Know Mankind Such As It Is. In Nothing Else Can We So Closely Approach Pure Contemplation And Thought, So Closely Observe The Errors Of The Senses And Of The Understanding, The Weak And Strong Points Of Character.

One Should Not Search For Anything Behind The Phenomena. They Themselves Are The Message.

Investigate What Is, And Not What Pleases.

Power Is Neither Male Nor Female.

All One Needs To Do Is Declare Oneself Free And One Will Immediately Feel Dependent. If You Dare To Declare Yourself Dependent, You Feel Independent.

Everything We Do Has A Result. But That Which Is Right And Prudent Does Not Always Lead To Good, Nor The Contrary To What Is Bad.

Certain Defects Are Necessary For The Existence Of Individuality.

Wealth And Speed Are What The World Admires, What Each Pursues. Railways, Express Mails, Steamships And Every Possible Facility For Communications Are The Achievement In Which The Civilized World View And Revels, Only To Languish In Mediocrity By That Very Fact. Indeed, The Effect Of This Diffusion Is To Spread The Culture Of The Mediocre.

We Who Didn't Inherit Political Power Nor Are Made To Acquire Riches Like Nothing Better Than That Which Expands And Solidifies The Power Of The Spirit.

One Does Not Get To Know That One Exists Until One Rediscovers Oneself In Others.

Against Criticism A Man Can Neither Protest Nor Defend Himself; He Must Act In Spite Of It, And Then It Will Gradually Yield To Him.

The Day Is For Mistake And Error, Sequence Of Time For Success And Carrying Out. The One Who Anticipates Is Master Of The Day.

Divide And Rule, A Sound Motto. Unite And Lead, A Better One.

Without Haste! Without Rest! Bind The Motto To Thy Breast! Bear It With Thee As A Spell; Storm Or Sunshine , Guard It Well.

Kindness Is The Golden Thread That Holds Society Together.

Tolerance Should, Strictly Speaking, Be Only A Passing Mood; It Ought To Lead To Acknowledgment And Appreciation. To Tolerate A Person Is To Affront Him.

There Is Nothing So Terrible As Activity Without Insight.

Architecture Is Crystallized Music.

Every Great Idea Exerts, On First Appearing, A Tyrannical Influence: Hence, The Advantages It Brings Are Turned All Too Soon Into Disadvantages.

Take Care Of Your Body With Steadfast Fidelity. The Soul Must See Through These Eyes Alone, And If They Are Dim, The Whole World Is Clouded.

The Man Who Masters Himself Is Delivered From The Force That Binds All Creatures.

The World Sees Only The Reflection Of Merit; Therefore When You Come To Know A Really Great Man Intimately, You May As Often Find Him Above As Below His Reputation.

Wisdom Is Only Found In Truth. [ger., Die Weisheit Ist Nur In Der Wahrheit.]

They Teach In Academies Far Too Many Things, And Far Too Much That Is Useless.

I Think That I Am Better Than The People Who Are Trying To Reform Me.

The Decline In Literature Indicates A Decline In The Nation. The Two Keep Pace In Their Downward Tendency.

Science Has Been Seriously Retarded By The Study Of What Is Not Worth Knowing And Of What Is Not Knowable.

There Is No Surer Method Of Evading The World Than By Following Art, And No Surer Method Of Linking Oneself To It Than By Art.

We Blame Equally Him Who Is Too Proud To Put A Proper Value On His Own Merit And Him Who Prizes Too Highly His Spurious Worth.

That We Understand Something Perfectly, That We Accomplish Something Better Than Anyone Else Around Us, That Is What Matters.

The Hardest Thing Is To See What's Under Your Very Eyes.

I Am Proud Of My Heart Alone, It Is The Sole Source Of Everything, All Our Strenght, Happiness & Misery. All The Knowledge I Possess Everyone Else Can Acquire, But My Heart Is All My Own

As Our Inclinations, So Our Opinions.

Only He Who Finds Empiricism Irksome Is Driven To Method.

Every Person Above The Ordinary Has A Certain Mission That They Are Called To Fulfill.

What A Torment It Is To See So Much Loveliness Passing And Repassing Before Us, And Yet Not Dare To Lay Hold Of It!

If You Have Science And Art, You Also Have Religion; But If You Don't Have Them, You Better Have Religion.

Die Zeit Ist Selbst Ein Element. Time Is Itself An Element.

And I Have Again Observed, My Dear Friend, In This Trifling Affair, That Misunderstandings And Neglect Occasion More Mischief In The World Than Even Malice And Wickedness. At All Events, The Two Latter Are Of Less Frequent Occurrence.

The Eternal Female Draws Us Onward.

There Is No Patriotic Art.

The Deepest, The Only Theme Of Human History, Compared To Which All Others Are Of Subordinate Importance, Is The Conflict Of Skepticism With Faith.

The Intelligent Man Finds Almost Everything Ridiculous, The Sensible Man Hardly Anything.

No Matter What One Says, You Can Recognize Only Those Matters That Are Equal To You. Only Rulers Who Possess Extraordinary Abilities Will Recognize And Esteem Properly Extraordinary Abilities In Their Subjects And Servants.

Sometimes I Don't Understand How Another Can Love Her, Is Allowed To Love Her, Since I Love Her So Completely Myself, So Intensely, So Fully, Grasp Nothing, Know Nothing, Have Nothing But Her!

What Is Important In Life Is Life, And Not The Result Of Life.

It Is In Self-limitation That A Master First Shows Himself.

A Man Sees In The World What He Carries In His Heart.

In Every Artist There Is A Touch Of Audacity Without Which No Talent Is Conceivable.

Nothing Is Worth More Than This Day.

Only That Type Of Story Deserves To Be Called Moral That Shows Us That One Has The Power Within Oneself To Act, Out Of The Conviction That There Is Something Better, Even Against One's Own Inclination.

We See Only What We Know.

All Intelligent Thoughts Have Already Been Thought; What Is Necessary Is Only To Try To Think Them Again.

Our Passions Are The True Phoenixes; When The Old One Is Burnt Out, A New One Rises From Its Ashes.

Precaution Is Better Than Cure.

One Is Never Satisfied With A Portrait Of Persons Whom One Knows. That Is Why I Have Always Pitied Portraitists. One Demands So Seldom Of Others The Impossible, But Demands Just That Of The Portraitists.

Our Mistakes And Failures Are Always The First To Strike Us, And Outweigh In Our Imagination What We Have Accomplished And Attained.

If Any Man 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.

Beware Of A Man Of One Book.

Limitation Of Aims Is The Mother Of Wisdom And The Secret Of Achievement.

Gifts Come From Above In Their Own Peculiar Forms.

People Do Not Mind Their Faults Being Spread Out Before Them, But They Become Impatient If Called On To Give Them Up.

Sweet Moonlight, Shining Full And Clear, Why Do You Light My Torture Here? How Often Have You Seen Me Toil, Burning Last Drops Of Midnight Oil. On Books And Papers As I Read, My Friend, Your Mournful Light You Shed. If Only I Could Flee This Den And Walk The Mountain-tops Again, Through Moonlit Meadows Make My Way, In Mountain Caves With Spirits Play - Released From Learning's Musty Cell, Your Healing Dew Would Make Me Well!

Personality Is Everything In Art And Poetry.

Every Idea Appears At First As A Strange Visitor, And When It Begins To Be Realized, It Is Hardly Distinguishable From Fantasy.

We Should Know Mankind Better If We Were Not So Anxious To Resemble One Another.

A Person Is Never Happy Till Their Vague Strivings Has Itself Marked Out Its Proper Limitations.

He Who Is And Remains True To Himself And To Others Has The Most Attractive Quality Of The Greatest Talent.

People Can Only Live With Their Equals, And Not Even With Them; For In The Long Run They Cannot Tolerate That Someone Is Their Equal.

Judge A Man's Character By What He Finds Ridiculous.

It Is Much Easier To Meet With Error Than To Find Truth; Error Is On The Surface, And Can Be More Easily Met With; Truth Is Hid In Great Depths, The Way To Seek Does Not Appear To All The World.

He Who Has Art And Science Also Has Religion, But Those Who Do Not Have Them Better Have Religion.

The Wealth That Cannot Be Administered Is A Burden.

A Man Is Really Alive Only When He Delights In The Good-will Of Others.

A Vi'let On The Meadow Grew, That No One Saw, That No One Knew, It Was A Modest Flower. A Shepherdess Pass'd By That Way-- Light Footed, Pretty And So Gay; That Way She Came, Softly Warbling Forth Her Lay.

How Many Years You Have To Keep On Doing, Until You Know What To Do And How To Do!

We Are Shaped And Fashioned By What We Love

What Have The Germans Gained By Their Boasted Freedom Of The Press, Except The Liberty Of Abusing Each Other As They Like?

Freedom Of The Press

He Who Enjoys Doing And Enjoys What He Has Done Is Happy.

Do Not Give In Too Much To Feelings. A Overly Sensitive Heart Is An Unhappy Possession On This Shaky Earth.

Sensitive Person

Mediocrity Has No Greater Consolation Than In The Thought That Genius Is Not Immortal.

Conscience Is The Virtue Of The Observers Not The Agents Of Action

My Worthy Friend, Gray Are All Theories And Green Alone Life's Golden Tree.

The Biggest Problem With Every Art Is By The Use Of Appearance To Create A Loftier Reality.

The Unnatural, That Too Is Natural.

The Traveler Was Active; He Went Strenuously In Search Of People, Of Adventure, Of Experience. The Tourist Is Passive.

Keep Not Standing Fixed And Rooted. Briskly Venture, Briskly Roam.

What We Agree With Leaves Us Inactive, But Contradiction Makes Us Productive.

All That Is Alive Tends Toward Color, Individuality, Specificity, Effectiveness And Opacity. All That Is Done With Life Inclines Toward Knowledge, Abstraction, Generality Transfiguration And Transparency.

The Rainbow Mirrors Human Aims And Action. Think, And More Clearly Wilt Thou Grasp It, Seeing Life Is But Light In Many-hued Reflection.

By Seeking And Blundering We Learn.

That Which Thy Fathers Have Bequeathed To Thee, Earn It Anew If Thou Wouldst Possess It.

You Accuse A Woman Of Wavering Affections, But Don't Blame Her; She Is Just Looking For A Consistent Man.

An Angel! Nonsense! Everybody So Describes His Mistress; And Yet I Find It Impossible To Tell You How Perfect She Is, Or Why She Is So Perfect: Suffice It To Say She Has Captivated All My Senses.

A Leaf That Is Destined To Grow Large Is Full Of Grooves And Wrinkles At The Start. Now If One Has No Patience And Wants It Smooth Offhand Like A Willow Leaf, There Is Trouble Ahead.

If You Want To Reach The Infinite, Then Explore Every Aspect Of The Finite.

All Ages Have Said And Repeated That One Should Strive To Know One's Self. This Is A Strange Demand Which No One Up To Now Has Measured Up To And, Strictly Considered, No One Should. With All Their Study And Effort, People Are Directed To What Is Outside, To The World About Them, And They Are Kept Busy Coming To Know This And To Master It To The Extent That Their Purposes Require. . . . 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. And What Is Your Duty? Whatever The Day Calls For.

This Being Busied With Thoughts Of Immortality Is For The Noble Classes And Especially For Women With Nothing To Do. A Solid Person, Though, Someone Who Already Intends To Be Something Worthy Here, And Who Therefore Has To Strive Daily, Has To Struggle And Work, Gives The World To Come A Rest.

Thank God When He Lays A Burden On Thee, And Thank Him When He Takes It Off.

Be Above It! Make The World Serve Your Purpose, But Do Not Serve It.

Everyone Believes In His Youth That The World Really Began With Him, And That All Merely Exists For His Sake.

Theories Are Usually The Over-hasty Efforts Of An Impatient Understanding That Would Gladly Be Rid Of Phenomena, And So Puts In Their Place Pictures, Notions, Nay, Often Mere Words.

Animals, We Have Been Told, Are Taught By Their Organs. Yes, I Would Add, And So Are Men, But Men Have This Further Advantage That They Can Also Teach Their Organs In Return.

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