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A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests. - [Solitude] A God-intoxicated man. [Ger., Gott-trunkener Mensch.] - [God] Accident is simply unforeseen order. - [Accident] All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff. - [Action] Character is a perfectly educated will. - [Character] Darwin remarks that we are less dazzled by the light at waking, if we have been dreaming of visible objects. Happy are those who have here dreamt of a higher vision! They will the sooner be able to endure the glories of the world to come. - [Excelsior] Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken. - [Delicacy] In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise. - [Wit] It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof. - [Sympathy] It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it is the still consecrated spirit of hope, the prophecy of happy days yet to come; the endless variety of nature, with presentiments of eternal flowers which never shall fade, and sympathy with the blessedness of the ever-developing world. - [Spring] Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken. - [Delicacy] Nature is an AEolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us. - [Nature] Only so far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life, and family life generally. - [Domesticity] Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion. - [Prayer] Shame is a feeling of profanation. Friendship, love and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence,--to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought,--many more, to be spoken. - [Shame] The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. - [Art] The badge of honesty is simplicity. - [Honesty] The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible. - [Bible] The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self; to render our consciousness its own light and its own mirror. - [Cultivation] The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage. - [Morality] The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe. - [Sympathy] There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body. - [Humanity] We are near waking when we dream that we dream. - [Dreams] We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body! - [Man] Where children are, there is the golden age. - [Children] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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