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"Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him."
Art
"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."
Children
"If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."
Children
"Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own."
Experience
"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."
Failure
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Knowledge
"I could not say I believe — I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God."
God
"No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep."
Government
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
Happiness
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."
Life & Death
"A shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
Life & Death
"Death is psychologically as important as birth. Shrinking away from it is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose."
Life & Death
"Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."
Love
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Power
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
Miscellaneous
"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."
Miscellaneous
"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."
Miscellaneous
"Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood."
Miscellaneous
"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul."
Miscellaneous
"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."
Miscellaneous
"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it."
Miscellaneous
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
Miscellaneous
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