Johann Kaspar
Johann Kaspar
yesterday today realizing
To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.
stars night
The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
desire criminals ignoble
The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.
adventure destiny past
Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come.
children passion desire
A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.
running wish energy
Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy.
wise wisdom knows
Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
discovery meditation intuition
The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom.--Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.
contradiction trade
Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
eye thinking world
Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world.
wise conscience
The conscience is more wise than science.
likes speak conceit
The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.
feels
The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he.
sacrifice fool enjoy
Who will sacrifice nothing, and enjoy all, is a fool.