Johann Kaspar
Johann Kaspar
judgment insincerity malice
The smiles that encourage severity of judgment hide malice and insincerity.
impotence
Loudness is impotence.
college air smell
He who comes from the kitchen, smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student; and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants.
art honor enemy
The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertions of human nature; and what nature will he honor who honors not the human?
anger passion suffering
He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
men assuming language
Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.
fearless gold size
Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.
reading mean know-yourself
If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you; and then show your copy to whom you please.
mean self existence
Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
lying temptation sacred
Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue.
men hatred hatred-and-love
As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
humility pride energy
Humility with energy is often mistaken for pride.
character men voice
The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.
essence firsts limbs
Know in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses.