One can advise comfortably from a safe port. |
Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair. |
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. |
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. |
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something. |
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom use |
People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have. For example, the freedom of thought. Instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation. |
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. |
Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment. |
Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us -- but not suckle us. |
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never |
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. |
Purity of heart is to will one thing. |
Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life. |
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings. |