Aphorisms
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Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
We find comfort among those who agree with us — growth among those who don't.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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