Where words leave off, music begins.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius.
Love is the poetry of the senses.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
What is classical is healthy; what is romantic is sick.
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
Sleep is the most delicious of all inventions.
People with good sense are often afraid of being ridiculous, while people with no sense are never afraid of being ridiculous.
In Germany, they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.
Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
Ideas are like beards. Men don’t have them until they grow up. Somebody says, ‘Why, he’s got brains, he doesn’t just have hair.’
Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
Whenever books are burned, men also, in the end, are burned.
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
When words leave off, music begins.
Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn people too.
The only way to live is to die like the autumn leaf, silently.
I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
Do not climb the mountain to see the world. The world will show itself to you when you reach the top.
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
To burn a book is to bring light to the world.
A poet only thinks of his beautiful verses, but a poet’s verses are only half of the poet.
You should never lose hope. Otherwise, sooner or later you will fall victim to despair.
Every age has its style; it is forgotten in time for another style, but in its time it is never out of place.
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have sealed up, and open our eyes to our own souls.
A clever man learns from his mistakes. A wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
Rain is like sin: once wet, it takes a long time to dry.
A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps as we walk the tightrope of life.
Man reveals his true self in the hardest moments.
It is poetry that brings pleasure, so it is also poetry that brings pain.
To see oneself in others, this is true love.
Love is a game in which one always cheats.
Be careful with your actions, for they become habits. Be careful with your habits, for they become your character. Be careful with your character, for it becomes your destiny.
Only those who have learned the art of living can learn the art of dying.
The best prophet of the future is the past.
Never consider the amount of work you have to do; consider the amount of time you have to do it in.
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
The world is a comedy for those who think, a tragedy for those who feel.
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Sleep is the most delicious of all inventions.
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