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- Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.
- There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.
- The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources
- The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
- People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor…
- Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what…
- There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
- Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
- The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it…
- If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
- Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives…
- Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon…
- I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.
- Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
- Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it
- Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.
- One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.
- Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
- The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise…
- With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims…
- The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
- Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
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