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Things Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a…
- We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important.
- Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out of yourself, out…
- And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of…
- You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. ... But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through you [that…
- When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.
- If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things, they will not abandon you; and the nights are…
- I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them.
- Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may…
- If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become…
- Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what.
- As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build...
- The thought of being a creator, of engendering, of shaping is nothing without the continuous great confirmation and embodiment in the world, nothing without the…
- More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.
- To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is…
- If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this…
- Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of…
- Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take…
- I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
- The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
- There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would…
- And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
- How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to…
- [A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or…
- This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle