A long life is a life well spent.
As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up
The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with the other waves.
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Not to appreciate life, all of life, is not to deserve it.
Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.
Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones.
The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base.
When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him.
Ask advice of him who governs himself well.
The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest.
Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery.
There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.
I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.
Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Life well spent is long.
He who thinks little errs much…
Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.
Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
In life beauty perishes, but not in art.
Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it.
Love shows itself more in adversitythan in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place isdarkest.
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
life without love, is no life at all
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
Our life is made by the death of others.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.