The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity |
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. |
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. |
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. |
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it |
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. |
The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing. |
The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality |
The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family. |
The family is one of nature's masterpieces. |
The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey |
The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them |
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. |
The highest form of vanity is love of fame. |
The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything. |