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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.
He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.
Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: "We have money like manure.
In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.
The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
Servants honor their master by their service.
Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.
A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.
I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.
If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.
Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.
Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.
You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
It is good insofar as it is not evil.
A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.
An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.
Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.
The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.
A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds.
Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.
You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low.
Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.
When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.
Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
Never expect any recognition here--the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross.
From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.
The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.
How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.
Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.
Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.
The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!
Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved.
If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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