Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring...

Quote by Henri Frederic Amiel

Topics: Mystery Quotes

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with...

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with...

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic...

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic...

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

The best path through life is the highway.

The best path through life is the highway.

A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought,...

A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought,...

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our...

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our...

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man...

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man...

I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to...

I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to...

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what?...

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what?...

Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur...

Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur...

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the...

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the...

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Order is power.

Order is power.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian...

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian...

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.